coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria. Curvature is crucial to the ability of bacteria to colonize surfaces and move in viscous environments - and thus also to cause disease, ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model ...

Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches.

This isn’t your garden variety bacteria. Vibrio lives up to the phrase “flesh-eating” because when it gets into your system, it destroys tissue by cutting off oxygen. It can lead to sepsis ...

Vibrio bacteria cultivated in the laboratory in a petri dish. The bacterial genus Vibrio is not only a danger to humans the bacteria can also cause great damage to reefs of the Pacific oyster.

The prevalence of vibrio bacteria in sea waters is increasing around the world as water temperatures rise due to climate change, according to the European Food Standards' Agency (EFSA).

Photo of the flooding in Punta Gorda on OCTOBER 10 2024 in the wate of Hurricane Milton with an inset of Vibrio bacteria. The storm made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Siesta ...

Biofilms—slimy communities of bacteria—grow on all sorts of surfaces: from glaciers and hot springs to plant roots, your ...

An international team has discovered that the helical arrangement of porins and lipoprotein PapS is crucial for the curvature ...

That bacteria family, called Vibrio, lives in salty or brackish coastal waters, including in the US and Canada. The infection it causes, vibriosis, is usually contracted by eating raw or ...