County health departments routinely collect water samples to test for bacteria levels to ensure water is safe for swimming.

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

Two commercially available biochemical test systems were evaluated for their ability to accurately identify species of the genus Escherichia. Three laboratories participated in the study. The test ...

Analysis of hundreds of genomes within four bacterial groups – Escherichia spp., Borrelia spp., Neisseria spp. and Helicobacter pylori – produced patterns indistinguishable from those observed ...

Chengwei Luo, Seth T. Walk, David M. Gordon, Michael Feldgarden, James M. Tiedje, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, W. Ford Doolittle, Genome sequencing of environmental Escherichia coli expands ...