Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

Escherichia coli is a paradigm for a versatile bacterial species which comprises harmless
commensal as well as different pathogenic variants with the ability to either cause intestinal …

Background A large outbreak of diarrhea and the hemolytic–uremic syndrome caused by an
unusual serotype of Shiga-toxin–producing Escherichia coli (O104: H4) began in Germany …

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of bacterial isolates has become standard practice in
many laboratories. Applications for WGS analysis include phylogeography and molecular …

The empirical and pragmatic nature of diagnostic microbiology has given rise to several
different schemes to subtype E. coli, including bioty**, seroty**, and pathoty**. These …

Escherichia coli is familiar to biologists as a classical model system, ubiquitous in molecular
biology laboratories around the world. Outside of the laboratory, E. coli strains exist as an …

Background. As whole genome sequence data from bacterial isolates becomes cheaper to
generate, computational methods are needed to correlate sequence data with biological …

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), a major cause of infectious diarrhea, produce heat-
stable and/or heat-labile enterotoxins and at least 25 different colonization factors that target …

Abstract Purpose of Review Review recent developments pertaining to the epidemiology,
molecular pathogenesis, and sequelae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections …

Escherichia coli AW1. 7 is a heat resistant food isolate and the occurrence of pathogenic
strains with comparable heat resistance may pose a risk to food safety. To identify the …