Escherichia
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Escherichia
C19: named after Theodor Escherich (1857–1911), German paediatrician who first described E. coli
Example Sentences
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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 ● Sep. 25, 2025
Water quality samples collected near the Camp Richardson Resort revealed elevated levels of Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli, according to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2025
The first stage was to establish a quality dataset of interactions between 403 diverse Escherichia coli strains and 96 phages.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
The prevalence of pathogenic E. coli has meant the frequent misidentification of a similar bacterium of the Escherichia genus.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
In 1940, an experiment on the simplest of organisms—a microscopic, capsule-shaped, gut-dwelling bacterium named Escherichia coli—provided the first crucial clue to this question.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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