Vibrio

See also: vibrio

Translingual

Vibrio cholerae by flagellar stain.

Etymology

From an Italian coinage vibrione by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini (1812–1883), who became posthumously famous for identifying the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854 (and who also named the genus).

Proper noun

Vibrio m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family  – gram-negative bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (comma shape), several species of which can cause foodborne infection,.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Bacteria - kingdom, Proteobacteria - phylum, Gamma Proteobacteria - class,  - order,  - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vibrio cholerae - type species; , ,  - selected other species; for other species see Vibrio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Vibrio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .

References

• Vibrio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vibrio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vibrio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons