Antibiotic-mediated perturbation of the gut microbiome is associated with numerous
infectious and autoimmune diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Yet, as the gut microbiome …

Cholera is an ancient disease that remains a public health problem in many impoverished
locations around the world. Seven pandemics of cholera have been recorded since the first …

Diarrhoeal diseases collectively constitute a serious public health challenge globally,
especially as the leading cause of death in children (after respiratory diseases). Childhood …

Vibrio spp. thrive in warm water and moderate salinity, and they are associated with aquatic
invertebrates, notably crustaceans and zooplankton. At least 12 Vibrio spp. are known to …

Since 2016, Yemen has been experiencing the largest cholera outbreak in modern history.
Multidrug resistance (MDR) emerged among Vibrio cholerae isolates from cholera patients …

Our understanding of cholera transmission and burden largely relies on clinic-based
surveillance, which can obscure trends, bias burden estimates and limit the impact of …

Background An outbreak of diphtheria, declared in Yemen in October, 2017, is ongoing. We
did a cross-sectional study to investigate the epidemiological, clinical, and microbiological …

Abstract In Bangladesh and West Bengal cholera is seasonal, transmission occurs
consistently annually. By contrast, in most African countries, cholera has inconsistent …

Polymyxins are a group of detergent-like antimicrobial peptides that are the ultimate line of
defense against carbapenem-resistant pathogens in clinical settings. Polymyxin resistance …

In 2022, one of its worst cholera outbreaks began in Bangladesh and the icddr, b Dhaka
hospital treated more than 1300 patients and ca. 42,000 diarrheal cases from March-1 to …