Word: vibrio
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...fraction of all bacterial species can cause disease. The rest play essential roles in the cycle of nature. Infectious bacteria differ from each other in several distinct respects: infectivity (i.e., the infectious does, ranging from a few cells of the tularemia bacillus to around 10-6 of the cholera vibrio); specific distribution in the body; virulence (i.e., the severity of the disease produced); and communicability from one individual host to another. These attributes depend on the coordinate activity of many genes, which are capable of independent variation. For our discussion the distinction between the ability to produce a serious disease...
...Warren E. Wacker, director of University Health Services, said yesterday that epidemics caused by this organism--called vibrio parahemolyticus--sometimes occur in Japan, where large quantities of raw fish are consumed, but "practically never" appear in New England...
Soviet Seamen. Europe and Africa were bracing last week for the arrival from Asia Minor of Vibrio cholerae, a comma-shaped bacillus that is the cause of the first serious outbreak of cholera in several years. So far, more than 3,000 cases, including at least 100 resulting in death, have been reported in a dozen countries along an arc that stretches from Dubai on the Persian Gulf to Accra on the west coast of Africa...
Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...
...possible to say whether Vibrio fetus is rare in human beings, or a common but usually undetected cause of prematurity or spontaneous abortion. The place to look for the evidence, says Dr. Eden, is in the placenta...