vibrio
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Definition(s):
- (n) curved rodlike motile bacterium
Usage(s):
- To clear up this misapprehension, Egypt's Ministry of Public Health satisfied itself that a cholera vibrio could exist no more than three hours on a diet of PTI or any other .
- Elpidio Valencia, then Health Secretary, correctly identified it as "choleriform enteritis caused by a vibrio (bacillus) called El Tor," which he less soundly defined as a "mild .
- Then the cholera vibrio was found, but volunteers have guzzled billions of them without getting sickand now the disease, if it develops, can be treated simply by replacing body .
Quotes
- Four people have died from what Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour describes as a "vibrio type diarrheal disease."on Sep 7, 2005 By: Haley Barbour Source: WTOK
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