E. coli, listeria and salmonella bacteria have been making news, again, for sickening Americans. But what exactly are these tiny troublemakers? Truthfully, unless you have a microscope and samples ...

Like E. coli, the intestinal form of Listeriosis causes vomiting and diarrhea. Symptoms appear within 24 hours of eating food containing listeria, typically lasting 1 to 3 days and are typically mild.

If an intestinal inhabitant such as the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) becomes resistant to many antibiotics, it can ...

An outbreak of infections linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has a lot of people across the United States concerned about their exposure to dangerous E. coli bacteria.

E. coli (Escherichia coli), a group of bacteria that lives in your gut, can be good and bad. Most strains of E. coli do not harm us and actually help our digestive system work properly.

The type of bacteria involved in this outbreak is E. coli O121:H19, a strain of dangerous Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, which has been linked to ground beef, romaine lettuce and water in the past ...

How often does E. coli make people sick? The type of bacteria implicated in this outbreak causes about 74,000 infections in the U.S. annually, leading to more than 2,000 hospitalizations and 61 ...