The following presents the topic of Vibro cholerae. Vibro cholerae is a bacterium that causes cholera, a disease that leads to death within hours, but can be easily prevented and treated for full recovery. The discussion of Vibro cholera includes names of the organisms, a history of the organisms, prevalence, method of transmission, contagiousness, symptoms, treatment, and more. This is followed by a summary and conclusion.
Vibro cholerae is also referred to as Kommabacillus. The genus Vibrio has Gram negative curved or straight rods; it is a bacterium that is motile by a single polar flagellum. The Vibrios are able to cause respiratory and fermentative metabolism. The Vibrios are related to enteric bacteria but are different in that they are oxidase-positive and motile by a polar flagelia. They also share properties with pseudomonads but are different in that they are fermentative and oxidative in metabolism. The Vibrio cholera (V. cholerae) has two major strains, the classic and the El Tor. Vibrio cholerae is the agent of cholera and this is the Vibrio that is most clinically significant to human beings (Todar, 2009).
V. cholerae was first discovered to be the cause of cholera by Filippo Pacini, an Italian anatomist, in 1854. However, it was not until Robert Koch publicized this information 30 years later that this finding became widely known. Vibrios are among the most common organisms found in the surface waters worldwide, in marine and freshwater places. V. cholera is found to occur naturally in fresh, salt water, and brackish plankton. They attach to the copepods in zooplankton. When zooplankton blooms, coastal cholera outbreaks are found which makes cholera a typical zoonosis. V. cholerae causes cholera, also called epidemic cholera and Asiatic cholera. Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease that is transmitted by water and food. Research evidence suggests that the natural reservoi...