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 …

The primary habitat of Escherichia coli is the vertebrate gut, where it is the predominant
aerobic organism, living in symbiosis with its host. Despite the occurrence of recombination …

Background Visualisation of genome comparisons is invaluable for hel** to determine
genotypic differences between closely related prokaryotes. New visualisation and …

Escherichia coli is a remarkable and diverse organism. This normally harmless commensal
needs only to acquire a combination of mobile genetic elements to become a highly adapted …

Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal
strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm …

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 …

Escherichia coli is an important component of the biosphere and is an ideal model for
studies of processes involved in bacterial genome evolution. Sixty-one publically available …

Enteric Escherichia coli (E. coli) are both natural flora of humans and important pathogens
causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Traditionally enteric E. coli have been …

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and enterohemorrhagic E. coli are diarrheagenic
bacterial human pathogens that cause severe gastroenteritis. These enteric pathotypes …

Bacterial plasmids are self-replicating, extrachromosomal elements that are key agents of
change in microbial populations. They promote the dissemination of a variety of traits …