One of the symptoms of this disease manifests as frequent watery diarrhea, leaving patients severely dehydrated. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this disease caused by a namesake microorganism’s infection of the small intestine. John Snow studied an outbreak of this disease in 19th-century London.
ANSWER: cholera
[10m] Cholera releases toxins through a Type VI secretion system that may also participate in this cell-to-cell communication phenomenon. This phenomenon also regulates the LUX operon.
ANSWER: quorum sensing
[10h] Gut microbiome imbalances can result in the dominance of this endospore-forming species of bacteria. This bacterial species releases A and B toxins, which cause pseudomembranous colitis.
ANSWER: Clostridiodes difficile [or C. difficile; or C. diff]
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