Vibrio vulnificus is a species of Gram-negative, motile, curved rod-shaped, pathogenic bacteria of the genus Vibrio. Present in marine environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas,
Colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a flagellated Vibrio vulnificus bacterium. The image shows the curved, rod-shaped morphology and polar flagella that aid in bacterial motility.
Children in Mpape community play in a waste water drainage area. This drainage was the suspected source of contamination of the well water that led to the cholera outbreak investigated by Nigeria FELTP residents in April 2014. Two samples collected from home wells around this drainage tested positive for Vibrio cholerae.