Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

Extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) are facultative pathogens that are part of the
normal human intestinal flora. The ExPEC group includes uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) …

EnteroBase is an integrated software environment that supports the identification of global
population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here, we …

Escherichia coli is the most researched microbial organism in the world. Its varied impact on
human health, consisting of commensalism, gastrointestinal disease, or extraintestinal …

Escherichia coli is classified as a rod‐shaped, Gram‐negative bacterium in the family
Enterobacteriaceae. The bacterium mainly inhabits the lower intestinal tract of warm …

The genus Escherichia is composed of Escherichia albertii, E. fergusonii, five cryptic
Escherichia clades and E. coli sensu stricto. Furthermore, the E. coli species can be divided …

Gut bacteria play a key role in initiating and maintaining the inflammatory process in the gut
tissues of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, by supplying antigens or other …

In 2008, a previously unknown Escherichia coli clonal group, sequence type 131 (ST131),
was identified on three continents. Today, ST131 is the predominant E. coli lineage among …

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are recognized as one of the most common infectious
diseases in the world that can be divided to different types. Uropathogenic Escherichia coli …

Although Escherichia coli is the most widely studied bacterial model organism and often
considered to be the model bacterium per se, its type strain was until now forgotten from …