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Escherichia coli (IPA: [ˌɛ.ʃəˈɹɪ.kjə ˈkʰoʊ.laɪ]) (E. coli), is one of the main species of bacteria living in the lower intestines of mammals, known as gut flora. Discovered in 1885 by Theodor Escherich, a German pediatrician and bacteriologist,^[1] E. coli are abundant: the number of individual E. coli bacteria in the feces that a human excretes in one day averages between 100 billion and 10 trillion. However, the bacteria are not confined to this environment, and specimens have also been located, for example, on the edge of hot springs. The E. coli strain O157:H7 is one of hundreds of strains of the bacterium that causes illness in humans.^[2]

As with all Gram-negative organisms, E. coli are unable to sporulate. Thus, treatments which kill all active bacteria, such as pasteurization or simple boiling, are effective for their eradication, without requiring the more rigorous sterilization which also deactivates spores.

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	(Chinese)	大腸桿菌
	(Japanese)	大腸菌
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Theodor Escherich

Theodor Escherich (November 29, 1857 - February 15, 1911) was an Austrian (born in Ansbach, Mittelfranken, and died in Vienna, Austria) pediatrician and bacteriologist and a professor at universities in Munich, Graz, and Vienna. He discovered Escherichia coli and established its properties...

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Recombinant

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Alkaline phosphatase

phosphatase (BAP), from Escherichia coli C4 cells Shrimp alkaline phosphatase (SAP), from a species of...

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Levofloxacin

-negative bacteria Enterobacter cloacae Klebsiella pneumoniae Pseudomonas aeruginosa Escherichia coli...

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Monera

Escherichia coli The Monera are a biological kingdom, including all living things which have a prokaryotic cell organization. Prior to its creation these were treated as two separate divisions of plants: the Schizomycetes or bacteria, including most prokaryotes and considered as fungi, and...

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Model organism

first model organism for molecular biology was probably the bacterium Escherichia coli which is common.... Important model organisms Viruses lambda phage Prokaryotes Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) Mycoplasma...

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E. coli

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Genome project

weed Oryza sativa Rice Triticum spp Wheat Zea mays Maize (or corn) Escherichia coli bacterium E.coli...

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Gram-negative

, including for instance Escherichia coli , Salmonella , and other Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas...

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Ernest Duchesne

studied the interaction between Escherichia coli and Penicillium glaucum , showing that the latter was...