Cholera is a contagious infection
caused by the bacteria Vibrio Cholerae which can in turn cause severe
gastroenteritis and excessive watery diarrhea for several days. Rapid
dehydration and electrolyte imbalances can be fatal as suspected in the deaths
of James K Polk the 11th president of the United States and Charles the tenth the
king of France.
V Colirae is a gram-negative curved bacteria that look like
little red or pink comma shapes on a gram stain it's positive for oxidase and
grows in alkaline media it has pyli and a single polar flagellum kind of like a
tail at one end which it uses for movement through the gastrointestinal tract it's
a facultative anaerobe so that means it can undergo respiratory and
fermentative metabolism.
