E. Coli News

Hygiene expert Dr Lisa Ackerley found the typical outdoor grill contains a staggering 1.7 million microbes per 100cm sq.

Three-quarters of public schools in the metro Atlanta area contain microbes, including bacteria indicating the presence of fecal matter, according to research published in the May 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report .

The Rice lab of computer scientist Luay Nakhleh reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that when environmental factors are eliminated from an evolutionary model, mutations and genetic drift can give rise to the patterns that appear.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday afternoon biology was found to be exceptional to very good at several sites on select Ohio River tributaries including Island Creek, Croxton Run and Wills Creek and 10 other sites in Jefferson and Harrison counties.

Health officials in Brazos County said Tuesday ground meat prepared at Coco Loco in College Station over a 3-day period in mid-April carried a virulent strain of the bacteria.

Mice given a healthy colony of human gut bacteria were able to ward off infections by pathogen E. coli bacteria.

Despite a study from the Centers for Disease Control that found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from metro Atlanta public swimming pools , Cobb officials say the county's pools are safe.

A sizzling steak on the grill looks tempting - but it may have been run through a machine like this to make it tender.

Just four germs are responsible for most of the severe and fatal diarrhea among the world's infants, according to a large new study.

Health experts say eating a high fiber diet can reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.

A cocktail of non-pathogenic bacteria naturally occurring in the digestive tract of healthy humans can protect against a potentially lethal E. coli infection in animal models according to research presented today at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

The storms that rolled through Peachtree Corners and the metro area early Sunday morning brought heavy rains and the danger of flooding along the Chattachoochee River.

E. coli is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming facultative anaerobe that has had a long history in the world of biotechnology and laboratory work due to its ease of manipulation and well-understood genetic system.

Given how often they're on the floor, occasionally inside a public restroom, it should come as no surprise that a third of women's purses crawl with E. coli.

Despite a study from the Centers for Disease Control that found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from metro Atlanta public swimming pools , Cobb officials said the county's pools are safe.

Starting July 2, federally inspected meat plants in Canada will be required to label beef steaks or roasts that have been mechanically tenderized, the federal government announced Friday.

According to the CDC, the figures from their tests of polls conducted during last summer's swim season showed about 58 percent of the samples tested positive for E. coli and bacteria typically found in human feces.

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says new rules to improve food safety will go into effect over the next two months.

An alarming amount of American meat harbors not just pathogens, but "superbugs" - antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Escherichia coli is a common cause of asymptomatic and symptomatic bacteriuria in hospitalized patients.