Most microbial communities consist of a genetically diverse assembly of different organisms,
and the level of genetic diversity plays an important part in community properties and …

The severity of human infection by one of the many Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
(STEC) is determined by a number of factors: the bacterial genome, the capacity of human …

Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses infecting bacteria. With an estimated 1031
particles in the biosphere, phages outnumber bacteria by a factor of at least 10 and not …

Few microorganisms are as versatile as Escherichia coli. An important member of the
normal intestinal microflora of humans and other mammals, E. coli has also been widely …

Molecular genetic research on bacteriophage lambda carried out during its golden age from
the mid-1950s to mid-1980s was critically important in the attainment of our current …

Outer membrane (OM) vesicles are ubiquitously produced by Gram-negative bacteria during
all stages of bacterial growth. OM vesicles are naturally secreted by both pathogenic and …

Comparative genomics demonstrated that the chromosomes from bacteria and their viruses
(bacteriophages) are coevolving. This process is most evident for bacterial pathogens where …

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) serotype O157: H7 is a human pathogen
responsible for outbreaks of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) …

The provisional molecular approach, proposed by EFSA in 2013, for the pathogenicity
assessment of Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC) has been reviewed. Analysis …

The objective of this review is to highlight the importance of cattle in human disease due to
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and to discuss features of STEC that are …