Escherichia coli (disambiguation)
For Escherichia coli as a species, see Escherichia coli. For Escherichia coli pathogenic strains, see Pathogenic Escherichia coli. For Escherichia coli as a model organism, see Escherichia coli (molecular biology). For The protozoan parasite that can also be abbreviated as E. coli, see Entamoeba coli.
Escherichia coli is a well studied bacterium that was first identified by Theodor Escherich, after whom it was later named.
Strains
Innocuous:
- Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 also known as Mutaflor
Laboratory:
- E. coli K-12, one of two laboratory strains (innocuous)
- Clifton wild type
- W3110
- DH5αE
- Dam dcm strain
- Escherichia coli B, the other of the two lab strains from which all lab substrains originate
- Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
Pathogenic:
- Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC)
- Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)
- Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC)
- Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
- Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC)
- Verotoxin-producing E. coli
- E. coli O157:H7 is an enterohemorrhagic strain also 2006 North American E. coli outbreak
- E. coli O104:H4, also 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak
- Escherichia coli O121
- Escherichia coli O104:H21
- Escherichia coli K1, meningitis
- E. coli O121
- Escherichia coli NC101
References
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