bacterium

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Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that spreads through food and water contaminated with the bacterium vibrio cholerae, often from faeces.

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Treponema pallidum is a spiral-shaped bacterium that exists today in three closely related subspecies.

From Science Daily

This gap in knowledge has been especially noticeable for E. coli, a bacterium that frequently appears in samples from infected wounds but has not been well studied in this context.

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"We use it to film each individual bacterium over several days and observe whether and how quickly a drug actually kills it," explains Lucas Boeck.

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The researchers discovered higher levels of Streptococcus mutans -- a common oral bacterium known for causing dental caries -- in the gut microbiomes of people with Parkinson's.

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