Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

Simple Summary Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second-leading cause of cancer-related
deaths worldwide. In this review article, we examine the role of gut microbiota in the …

Bovine mastitis is an inflammation of the udder tissue parenchyma that causes pathological
changes in the glandular tissue and abnormalities in milk leading to significant economic …

The gut microbiota acts as a real organ. The symbiotic interactions between resident micro-
organisms and the digestive tract highly contribute to maintain the gut homeostasis …

In 2008, a previously unknown Escherichia coli clonal group, sequence type 131 (ST131),
was identified on three continents. Today, ST131 is the predominant E. coli lineage among …

There is extensive genetic substructure within the species E scherichia coli. In 2000 a simple
triplex PCR method was described by C lermont and colleagues that enables an E. coli …

Antivirulence drugs are a new type of therapeutic drug that target virulence factors,
potentially revitalising the drug-development pipeline with new targets. As antivirulence …

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 …

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 …