Tags: Bacteria.

Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative comma-shaped bacterium. Some strains of V. cholerae cause the disease cholera. V. cholerae is a facultative anaerobic organism and has a flagellum at one cell pole. V. cholerae was first isolated as the cause of cholera by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854 but his discovery was not widely known until Robert Koch working independently 30 years later publicized the knowledge and the means of fighting the disease.

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