Related Experiment Video
Updated: Dec 17, 2025

Development of a More Sensitive and Specific Chromogenic Agar Medium for the Detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Other Vibrio Species
Published on: November 8, 2016
Phylogeny and life cycle of the zoonotic pathogen Vibrio vulnificus
Carla Hernández-Cabanyero1, Carmen Amaro1
1ERI-Biotecmed, University of Valencia, Dr. Moliner, 50, Valencia, 46100, Spain.
Abstract:
Vibrio vulnificus is a zoonotic pathogen able to cause diseases in humans and fish that occasionally result in sepsis and death. Most reviews about this pathogen (including those related to its ecology) are clearly biased towards its role as a human pathogen, emphasizing its relationship with oysters as its main reservoir, the role of the known virulence factors as well as the clinic and the epidemiology of the human disease. This review tries to give to the reader a wider vision of the biology of this pathogen covering aspects related to its phylogeny and evolution and filling the gaps in our understanding of the general strategies that V. vulnificus uses to survive outside and inside its two main hosts, the human and the eel, and how its response to specific environmental parameters determines its survival, its death, or the triggering of an infectious process.
Related Concept Videos
Viral Replication: Lysogenic Cycle
Bacterial Phylum Verrucomicrobiota
Lytic Cycle of Bacteriophages
Infection
The chain begins with pathogens: bacteria, viruses, fungi, prions, or parasites such as protozoa helminths. These can be present on the skin as transient or resident flora, or they can be acquired from the environment. Identifying and treating the type of infection and...
Lysogenic Cycle of Bacteriophages
Bacterial Phylum Spirochaetes

