Scientists have looked at the infection process of E. coli to try and develop ways to interfere with it. Illness-causing E. coli bacteria launch infections by inducing intestinal cells to form tiny ...

Research by scientists in Australia could help open up new possibilities to treat enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections. University of New South Wales (UNSW) microbiologists discovered a ...

Treatment for a deadly E. coli strain may be possible in the future, after researchers identify a new molecular pathway that controls the potent Shiga toxin. EHEC is a food-borne pathogen that ...

It remains mysterious why humans get infected by some bacterial or viral pathogens relatively easily while animals that have very similar tissues and immune functions do not. This chasm also is the ...

Noting precedent with EHEC and similar outbreaks, German epidemiologists scrambled to implicate a food source. Although initial investigations indicted cucumbers imported from Spain, the first ...

A multi-disciplinary team of biological engineers, microbiologists, and systems biologists, whose goal it is to uncover the causes of tolerance to infection exhibited by certain individuals or species ...

Escherichia coli, known as E. coli, are bacteria which many people associate with causing mild food poisoning, but some types of E. coli can be fatal. UNSW Science microbiologists studied an E. coli ...