E. coli

American  

[ee koh-lahy] / ˈi ˈkoʊ laɪ /

noun

Bacteriology.

1. Escherichia coli: a species of rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the large intestine of humans and other animals, sometimes pathogenic.

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E. coli British  

/ ˌiːˈkəʊlaɪ /

noun

1. short for Escherichia coli; see Escherichia

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E. coli Scientific  

/ ēkō′lī /

1. A bacillus (Escherichia coli) normally found in the human gastrointestinal tract and occurring in numerous strains, some of which are responsible for diarrheal diseases. Other strains have important experimental uses in molecular biology.

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Etymology

Origin of E. coli

See Escherichia coli ( def. )

Example Sentences

Prof Trevor Graham, from the ICR, said: "Our leading idea is that there's a particular kind of E. coli that lives in the bowels of young people today that wasn't there in the past."

From BBC

In these experiments, researchers deliberately created many different mutations within a single gene or section of the genome in organisms such as yeast and E. coli.

From Science Daily

Four people fell ill with E. coli linked to a music festival held during the summer.

From BBC

He will be targeting AI at a tricky group of infections, called Gram-negative bacteria, that includes well known bugs such as E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

From BBC

They examined the structure of Bas63, a virus that infects E. coli, at a molecular scale to better understand how its tail functions during infection.

From Science Daily