The human bacterial pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus, is found in brackish waters and is
concentrated by filter-feeding molluscan shellfish, especially oysters, which inhabit those …

Vibrio vulnificus populates coastal waters around the world, where it exists freely or
becomes concentrated in filter feeding mollusks. It also causes rapid and life-threatening …

The quorum regulatory cascade is poorly characterized in Vibrio parahaemolyticus, in part
because swarming and virulence factors—the hallmarks of the organism—are repressed by …

Vibrio vulnificus is autochthonous to estuaries and warm coastal waters. Infection occurs via
open wounds or ingestion, where its asymptomatic colonization of seafood, most infamously …

Despite years of successful isolation of Vibrio vulnificus from estuarine waters, beginning in
2007, it was extremely difficult to culture V. vulnificus from either North Carolina estuarine …

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterial species that inhabits brackish waters, is an opportunistic
pathogen of humans. V. vulnificus infections can cause acute gastroenteritis, invasive …

Human Vibrio infections associated with consumption of raw shellfish greatly impact the
seafood industry. Vibrio cholerae-related disease is occasionally attributed to seafood, but …

Climate change is having increasingly profound effects on human health, notably those
associated with the occurrence, distribution, and transmission of infectious diseases. The …

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium ubiquitous in oysters and coastal water, is capable of causing
ailments ranging from gastroenteritis to grievous wound infections or septicemia. The uptake …

Competence for genetic transformation in V ibrio cholerae is triggered by chitin‐induced
transcription factor TfoX and quorum sensing (QS) regulator HapR. Transformation requires …