With sudden outbreaks of E. coli in the press from time to time, this tiny organism has, understandably, gotten something of a bad rap of late. But, while it is known to be a health risk ...

Jean Perrin brand Morbier de Scey and Raclette de Scey (cheeses) are under recall in Canada because of contamination with pathogenic E. coli. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency the ...

This study assessed differences in the conjugative transfer of an IncP-1 (pKJK5) plasmid to three natural Escherichia coli strains carrying extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, by filter mating. Matings ...

Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States ...

66 gram-negative facultative anaerobes, 15 obligate anaerobes, and three fungi. The most common organisms were Escherichia coli (20.6%), followed by enterococci (18%) and streptococci (15.3%).

To evaluate whether the evolution of specialists or generalists occurs under environmental fluctuation regimes with different levels of periodicity, 24 populations of Escherichia coli underwent ...

However, microbes that are able to thrive in both low or high levels of oxygen (facultative anaerobes), which include ESKAPE pathogens, were more common on fingertips, toe webs and nostrils (nares ...

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, People’s Republic of China ...