After simmering in Asia for more than 1,000 years, cholera has swept across the world in pandemics seven times since 1817. The disease produces diarrhea so severe that it can be fatal. In a step toward developing a vaccine or new drugs for cholera, investigators have now read the complete DNA sequence of Vibrio cholera, the bacterium responsible for the illness.
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