Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, 13 Prospekt Entuziastov, Saratov 410049, Russian Federation ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America.

likely because the lake acts as a reservoir for the cholera bacteria. “Because the bacteria persist in the lake, some residents of the city may have opportunities to be regularly exposed and may ...

In this study, establishing a Drosophila model of paraneoplastic syndrome triggered by tumor transplantation, we found that the innate immune response, initiated by translocated commensal bacteria ...

But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war—one that could shape the course of pandemics. The researchers looked at Peruvian cholera strains from the 1990s ...

Cholera bacteria aren't just battling antibiotics and public health measures—they are also constantly under attack from bacteriophages (phages), viruses that infect and kill bacteria.