Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal
strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm …

Escherichia coli is a paradigm for a versatile bacterial species which comprises harmless
commensal as well as different pathogenic variants with the ability to either cause intestinal …

Some Escherichia coli strains produce toxins designated cyclomodulins (CMs) which
interfere with the eukaryotic cell cycle of host cells, suggesting a possible link between these …

The gut microbiota is considered as a forgotten organ in human health and disease. It
maintains gut homeostasis by various complex mechanisms. However, disruption of the gut …

Background Escherichia coli, particularly the adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC) pathovar, has
been increasingly implicated in the ethiopathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD). We describe …

ABSTRACT A genomic island encoding the biosynthesis and secretion pathway of putative
hybrid nonribosomal peptide-polyketide colibactin has been recently described in …

Few would contest that advances in uncovering genetic risk factors for Crohn's disease and
ulcerative colitis over the past decade have changed the way we think about inflammatory …

Background Ileal lesions of Crohn's disease (CD) patients are abnormally colonized by
pathogenic adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) able to invade and to replicate within …

A healthy human body contains at least tenfold more bacterial cells than human cells and
the most abundant and diverse microbial community resides in the intestinal tract. Intestinal …

In this review, we discuss the multifactorial role of intestinal microbiota in colorectal cancer.
The peculiar metabolism of dietary compounds of the individual microbiota complement, its …