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E Coli Infections
E. coli is and abbreviation for Escherichia coli. It is a drink and food borne pathogen that causes severe cramps and is the leading cause of bloody diarrhea, strains, symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatments may be asked and answered here.
513 Questions
Does E. coli bacteria have spores?
The answer is no, and as for references, please visit the related link below. It's the top line.
E. coli does not turn into anything. What it does is multiply. And depending on the strain that can be either beneficial or harmful.
Why is E. coli incubated at 37?
E. coli lives in the intestines and is adapted for living there. The average body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius
Will you get sick from drinking water with ecoli?
Fresh bottled water should not make a person sick. Bottled water that is exposed to excessive heat temperatures may be harmful because of the toxins from the plastic bottle released into the water. A person would not feel the symptoms immediately making them sick although long term there could be effects.
What can ecoli do to your body?
it is in the intestines and can help digest food, but some types can get into your blood stream and cause an infection.
How did you get e coli in your urine?
Urine is supposed to be sterile. When any type of bacteria is found in a urine sample, it is indicative of a urinary tract infection (UTI). E. coli is a colliform that is naturally found in our digestive tract, particularly the large intestine. Normally there are not enough bacteria present to cause harm (the bacteria will not become pathogenic and produce thair toxin until enough are present, which happens when we eat something contaminated with them). If E. coli are present in the urine, this could indicate that somehow the bladder has become infected with something from the colon.
This is not an official diagnosis by any means, merely an observation. Professional advice should be sought for a true diagnosis and treatment.
Does E. coli hydrolyze casein?
no, E. coli does not hydrolyze starch; if you grow a culture on a starch plate and incubate it at 37 Celsius for 24 hours and then flood the plate with iodine, you will see no reactiojn (ie: clear area developing around the growth).
Does E coli a glucose fermentation and does it produces gas?
E. coliuses mixed-acid fermentation in anaerobic conditions, producing
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How do you purify water with e coli?
E. Coli bacteria samples which are placed for at least one minute in boiling water at sea level altitude (longer for higher altitudes) are destroyed due to breakdown of the cell wall.
"Col" refers to the colon, and "-itis" is a suffix meaning "inflammation."
How do you get ecoli in your lungs?
Yes -- e coli, which colonizes in the gut, can be inhaled if the infected contents of the gut is present in feces that is exposed to inhaled air, or is present in vomit that is aspirated. E coli can also colonize in the urinary tract and can vaporize into breathable air upon infected urine's release from the body. E coli pneumonia is known to spread in this fashion in chronic-type medical care institutional settings.
How many base pair long is the E. coli chromosome?
There are several different strains of E. coli, each having about five million (5,000,000) base pairs. For example, uropathogenic E. coli (the one commonly associated with urinary tract infections) has about 5,231,428 base pairs, while E. coli K-12 has 4,639,221. The number of base pairs an organism has in its genes is commonly referred to as genome size. A web search for "genome size E. coli" is how I found these numbers.
Ecoli is a bacteria and can be found in pretty much any food. Most commonly, ecoli is in raw chicken.
How does e. coli get into your blood?
My husband recently suffered sweats and rygors twice before being rushed to emergency locally. He was finally diagnosed as e-coli infection in the blood. They do not know how it got there and whether it somehow entered hi blood stream via a mild diverticulitis..not painful and being a vegetarian, something we had not even considered. They think he got run down working on detailing 3 cars over 2 weeks (he's 72) and this allowed his immune system to run down and allow perhaps, the diverticular to host this bacteria enoughn for it to penetrate a small lesion. Which they couldn't see, but figured there's o other way. My husband was on the only antibiotic which responded to this particular strain of e-coli which is cifran for 8 days. This caused side effects and so he stopped it after follow up with our gastro specialist. Just wanted to know if this e-coli could enter blood through or via a lesion inside the backside cheeks which he scratched nightly making it bleed..
What will you see of a gram stain of e coli?
E. coli is a gram negative bacteria, meaning that it has a cytoplasmic lipid membrane, a peptidoglycan layer, and a (LPS) lipopolysaccharide layer. As a result, e. coli stains a pink colour on a gram stain from the counterstain saffranin. Gram positives stain purple retain the crystal violet dye even after washed with a decolouring solution.
