The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is coming under fire for not publicizing its own report into an E. coli outbreak last year that spread across 15 states and infected 89 people, one of whom died.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have engineered chromosome-free bacterial particles called SimCells that killed more than 97% of drug-resistant E. coli in laboratory tests, according to ...

Escherichia coli is a microbe that is a natural resident of the gastrointestinal tract. Some strains of this microbe can cause serious infections, however, and they may generate nasty toxins. Some are ...

E. coli TGT is nearly identical to the one found in Shigella, which causes the intestinal infection shigellosis.

Bacteria that often cause urinary infections can spread as rapidly as swine flu. But E. coli that are resistant to several classes of antibiotics behave differently. Escherichia coli (E. coli) are the ...

After a nearly threefold drop in prescriptions for the antibiotic ciprofloxacin between 2015 and 2021, the rates of ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli bacteria circulating in the community did not ...

Microbiology lab media plates show E. coli bacteria growing on E. coli selective agar (pink) and blood agar (red). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other officials in several US states are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of infections caused by a pathogenic strain of E. coli ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from Wuhan University, York University (UK), and Peking University has uncovered how Escherichia coli (E. coli) persister bacteria survive antibiotics by ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. The study opens the door to potential new treatments for bacterial ...