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Cholera is a disease...
The disease cholera is caused by a bacterium.
The bacterium was first described by Filippo Pacini in 1854, but it was Robert Koch's famous description thirty years later that was finally recognized.
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Is cholera caused by a bacterium?
Cholera is not caused by any virus. Cholera is caused by baceteria. Name of that bacteria is vibrio cholerae.
Diseases such as cholera meningitis poliomyelitis and typhoid are usually attributed to?
They are all due to microorganisms or pathogens that infect the body. Poliomyelitis is caused by a virus while cholera, meningitis, and typhoid are caused by bacteria.
Is cholera caused by a bacterium or a fungus?
Cholera is caused by bacteria. Name of the bacteria is vibrio cholerae.
Does chlorine cause cholera?
Chlorine does not cause cholera. You may get cholera, by absence of that little chlorine in public water supply.
Is cholera a virus or a bacteria disease?
Cholera is a diarrheal illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The toxin causes massive amounts of water to be excreted into the lumen of the bowel, thus producing copious watery diarrhea. The danger is not from the diarrhea, but instead from the dehydration it produces. Children and the elderly are especially at risk.
Is cholera a host or a vector?
Cholera is neither host nor the vector. Cholera is a disease caused by vibrio cholerae bacteria.
What is the locomotory organ of cholera bacterium?
Cholera bacteria has got a flagellum at one pole for locomotion.
What did people think of cholera?
They thought that cholera was spread from water and food because of the bacteria in the food.
what happen if Cholera causing bacteria have a single flagellum that allows these bacteria to?
move!
Does eating contaminated watermelon leads to cholera?
Watermelon can be contaminated by cholera bacteria on their surface. But then the watermelons are carried to market and by that time the bacteria get killed after drying of watermelons. But then the watermelons can be contaminated like other foods and cause you cholera.
A virus that infects bacteria?
A virus that infects bacteria is called a bacteriophage
How is the cholera transmitted?
Cholera is caused by the bacteria called as vibrio cholerae. These bacteria are excreted in very large number in loose motion of the cholera patient. These bacteria are transmitted through contaminated water and by flies, at times by hands to other people.
