Escherichia

British  

/ ˌɛʃəˈrɪkɪə /

noun

1. a genus of Gram-negative rodlike bacteria that are found in the intestines of humans and many animals, esp E. coli , which is sometimes pathogenic and is widely used in genetic research

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Etymology

Origin of Escherichia

C19: named after Theodor Escherich (1857–1911), German paediatrician who first described E. coli

Example Sentences

NEB scientists first optimized the method using a well-studied model virus, Escherichia coli phage T7.

From Science Daily

Detailed stool analysis pointed to several bacterial species as key contributors, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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"We developed a way to produce tagatose by engineering the bacteria Escherichia coli to work as tiny factories, loaded with the right enzymes to process abundant amounts of glucose into tagatose. This is much more economically feasible than our previous approach, which used less abundant and expensive galactose to make tagatose."

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To test their hypothesis, the researchers built large-scale computer models of Escherichia coli bacteria.

From Science Daily

The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of chemical biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, was Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli.

From BBC