A specific strain of E. coli associated with leafy greens has been the source of ongoing enteric illness since late 2016, according to research published in a Centers for Disease Control and ...

E. coli O157:H7 is the most common strain to cause human illness, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Listeria, meanwhile, was below the detection limit at all pH values, the study showed.

Naval Research Laboratory Caption (Left) Wild-type Escherichia coli a non-melanin producing strain and (right) bioengineered E. coli mutant with the Tyr1 gene to produce melanin in liquid media.

New research has made encouraging progress in tackling not one but two of the biggest problems facing our planet right now: plastic pollution and the use of fossil fuels as part of drug manufacturing ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Public Health Agency of Canada are investigating the source of a recent E. coli outbreak that has infected ...

A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive longer in lake water than benign counterparts, a new study finds.

Drug resistance is one of the worst threats of our time, but it’s a research blindspot in New Zealand. The threat is probably ...

New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the evolution and process of natural selection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in the lab. These maps, called fitness landscapes, ...

A student-led research project at the University of Cincinnati found “concerningly high” levels of human E. coli in the soils of Burnet Woods Park.