As of October 25, 2024, there have been 77 cases and 15 deaths, up from 46 cases and 11 deaths in 2023. Vibrio are a group of marine bacteria that thrive in warm, brackish waters—where fresh water ...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram-negative, halophilic bacterium prevalent in marine environments and ... where early detection of pathogens is crucial for preventing illness.

His team now wants to set up a similar pathogen-monitoring and disease-prediction system for pathogenic ... example is vibrio vulnificus, commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria, a bacterium ...

Individual bacteria use quorum sensing to detect and respond to changes in cell density as a coordinated group. For example, the first reported evidence of quorum sensing was in two marine bacterial .

All behave as opportunistic pathogens ... to grow Vibrio cholera, the bacteria that causes cholera, on shrimp shells, the substrate on which bacteria often grow in their marine environment.