E. Coli News

The number of cases reported in an E. coli outbreak has increased to 9 confirmed cases and 8 probable, DuPage County health officials said Tuesday.

Carlsbad Director of Public Works Luis Camero said the beach water tested highly for E. coli, fecal coliforms and bacteria well above the Environmental Protection Agency's threshold for human contact.

Summer's here and after all of the bad weather and miserable cold we endured this winter and spring, we can now enjoy those picnics and barbeques.

In a piece of work carried out by the Carbohydrate Metabolism Research Team of the Institute of Agrobiotechnology , the discovery has been made of the way in which the glgS gene acts in bacteria and how the mechanisms involved in bacterial infection can be altered by manipulating this gene, which indirectly affects glycogen production.

"If you have ants in your house," the great Harvard ecologist EO Wilson once said , "be kind to them."

At least 9 million people a year in the U.S. suffer from a foodborne illness caused by a major pathogen, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health workers in Erie and Ottawa counties have begun taking water samples at local beaches, testing for the presence of large numbers of E. coli bacteria.

High water levels have forced the closure of several facilities at Red Rock Lake and could be related to high bacteria levels found at one beach, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Nevada Department of Conservation & Natural Resources says bacteriological test indicate that E. coli and other coliform bacteria are not present in the water system.

JONESBORO, AR - Lake Ponder at Crowley's Ridge State Park is once again open to swimmers after being closed due to E. coli.

Residents in the southeast Oklahoma town of Asher have been told to boil their water because it's contaminated with fecal coliform, or E. coli.

To obtain a Pichia pastoris mutant with an Escherichia coli phytase gene, which was synthesized according to P. pastoris codon preference, a mature phytase cDNA of E. coli being altered according to the codons usage preference of P. pastoris was artificially synthesized and cloned into an expression vector of pGAPZI C. The final extracellular ... (more)

Chinese patients who've gotten sick contracted the disease from animals. There aren't yet any known cases of human-to-human transmission.

A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive longer in lake water than benign counterparts, a new study finds.

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The swim beach at Boulder Reservoir is back open following a 2-day closure put in place after tests revealed elevated levels of E. coli bacteria in the water.

A Tucson scientist, known as Dr. Germ, has set his sights on hospital cleaning towels, and has found something that could change the way hospitals do things.

Residents across southern Broward County are breathing a sigh of relief following Saturday's announcement that a boil-water alert was finally lifted.

According to a Broward County Broward Water and Wastewater Services press release, "Consecutive day bacteriological sampling, following a detection of E. coli bacteria in one well in the South Regional well-field, has resulted in a determination that potable water is safe for drinking."

Chinese patients who've gotten sick contracted the disease from animals. There aren't yet any known cases of human-to-human transmission.