Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli ...

It is caused by enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) as well as any species of the genus Shigella, namely, S. dysenteriae, S. flexneri, S. boydii, and S. sonnei. This current species designation of Shigella ...

This study was designed to determine the ratio between the density of Escherichia coli and other Thermotolerant Coliforms (TtC) bacteria from freshwater samples collected for a two-year period of ...

Enterotoxigenic E. coli infection can be prevented by vaccinating the mothers a month before they calve down. The vaccine ...

The E. coli bacteria that ravaged Colton’s kidneys was a genetic match to the strain that killed one person and sickened nearly 90 people in 15 states last fall. Federal health agencies investigated ...

A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.

Last November, 9-year-old Colton George became sick and nearly died after eating a salad, which was tainted with E. coli. He ...

Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli ...

Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Food Synthetic Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China ...

Escherichia coli O157, sometimes called STEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli), is a bacterial infection that can cause severe stomach pain, bloody diarrhoea and kidney failure. About half ...

coli O157:H7. Just as a stressed dog is more likely to bite, the stressed bacteria became more virulent, pumping out more Shiga-like toxin, the chemical that causes illness in humans. The researchers ...