Escherichia

/ ˌɛʃəˈrɪkɪə /

noun

1. a genus of Gram-negative rodlike bacteria that are found in the intestines of humans and many animals, esp E. coli , which is sometimes pathogenic and is widely used in genetic research

Word History and Origins

Origin of Escherichia¹

C19: named after Theodor Escherich (1857–1911), German paediatrician who first described E. coli

Example Sentences

He and his team used machine learning to look at the genomes of a whole bunch of different strains of Escherichia coli, a bacteria in which different strains repeatedly evolve in convergent ways, to see whether this occurs by chance or by a process of natural selection.

From Salon

On the productivity side, vaccine candidate molecules are being made in basic model organisms like Escherichia coli.

From Science Daily

They found 79 disrupted bacterial membranes and 63 specifically targeted antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.

From Science Daily

One of the new compounds, lolamicin, selectively targeted some "laboratory strains of gram-negative pathogens including Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae," the researchers found.

From Science Daily

The prevalence of pathogenic E. coli has meant the frequent misidentification of a similar bacterium of the Escherichia genus.

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