Bacterium
vibrio cholerae
Subclass of:
Vibrio
Definitions related to vibrio cholerae:
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, curved rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, oxidase and lipase positive, can use a wide variety of sugars as carbon sources, does not require salt for growth, and produces cholera toxin. V. cholerae is the causative agent of cholera.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Vibrio cholerae.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Etiologic agent of human Asiatic cholera; some strains produce a milder, cholera-like disease.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The etiologic agent of CHOLERA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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