A new study from Italy has provided new insights into how the cholera bacteria work within the human body. The study led by Dr Carla Pruzzo, Dr Luigi Vezzulli and Dr Rita R Colwell analysed the interaction of the bacteria with the environment that shed light on how organism causes disease. The researchers focused their study over Vibrio cholerae, responsible for Cholera. In the aquatic environment this bacteria interacts with chitin, a naturally occurring compound found in the cell walls of fungi, and in the exoskeleton of crustaceans and insects.

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