For people with female anatomy, up to half will experience ... The cause of a UTI is unfriendly bacteria—usually Escherichia coli (E. coli)—entering your urinary tract through your urethra ...

They feed on decaying organic matter and do not have the mouthparts or anatomy to bite or sting humans. Maggots can carry a variety of disease-causing bacteria, including Escherichia coli (E. coli), ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly opened and closed an investigation into an outbreak of a particularly virulent strain of Escherichia coli, better known as the deadly bacteria E.

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

Escherichia coli is a rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that inhabits the gut of warm-blooded animals. It is a prokaryotic model organism and is widely used as an experimental workhorse for DNA ...

An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists report that exposure to ...

Scientists have solved the 3D structure of EspC, a powerful toxin produced by EPEC, a diarrheal E. coli strain that kills ...

coli outbreak last year that spread across 15 states and infected 89 people, one of whom died. The outbreak was linked to romaine lettuce — with the first case being recorded in St. Louis County ...

The federal government covered up an outbreak of E. coli that killed one person and spread across at least 15 states, according to a report published Thursday. A series of E. coli cases was first ...

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) warned that Isle of Mull Cheese's Hebridean Blue Cheese may contain Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), which can trigger severe food poising and life ...

An E. coli outbreak last year linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened dozens of others, but the Food and Drug Administration never told the public about it. According to an FDA ...