vibrio

Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."

Long-term effects of ocean warming on the prokaryotic community: evidence from the vibrios. ISME J.

The Baltic Sea region has been described as a "crucible of climate change," notes Craig Baker-Austin, a microbiologist specializing in pathogenic vibrios at the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Weymouth, UK.

Without effective controls against these vibrios, the molluscan shellfish industry could be lost for future generations, especially on the west coast, where these pathogens appear to infect not only hatchery stocks of larval shellfish, but native stocks as well.

Density of vibrios in hemolymph and hepatopancreas of diseased Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, from northwestern Mexico.

Vibrios are halophilic, gram-negative bacteria that are ubiquitous in the estuarine and marine environments, where they are found in the water column and associated with the sediment and plankton (Nishibuchi & DePaola 2005).

Bacterial infections mostly because of the consumption of fish and shellfish have been attributed to pathogenic Vibrios (16).

Relationships between environmental factors and pathogenic vibrios in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

We now know that there is an active dialogue between copepods and vibrios, and that copepods can have a big influence on the type and activity of bacteria that survive in the environment.