Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, recently received $3.75 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how polymicrobial communities form ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacteria that commonly causes UTIs. When an infection occurs, doctors prescribe antibiotics to help treat it. E. coli is a type of bacteria that lives in the gut ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 40 (October 4, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) Horizontal gene transfer drives bacterial evolution. To confer ...

Large-scale analysis of 12,238 gut metagenomes identifies microbial co-colonizers and co-excluders, offering insights into infection resistance and potential non-antibiotic therapies. Study: ...

UTI cases are rising globally, and meat products might be to blame. A urinary tract infection (UTI), an infection in the urinary system, is often caused by bacteria, especially E. coli. In 2023, a ...

Study: Quantifying the intra- and inter-species community interactions in microbiomes by dynamic covariance mapping. Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com A study published in Nature ...

As cases of urinary tract infections grow, infections are also getting harder to treat with commonly used antibiotics. Contaminated meat, especially poultry, can spread E. coli bacteria that cause ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD E. coli (Escherichia coli) is a group of bacteria. Most strains live in your intestines (gut) and help with digestion, but some types can make you sick, ...

I’m told you always remember your first. I was seventeen, and my boyfriend and I had recently started having sex. It was a summer day in Los Angeles, both my parents were at work, and as I lay around ...

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. It is not yet known which ...

Allen Washington, 25, was arrested for his involvement in a fatal shooting that took place on August 19. Read full article: Man arrested, accused of murder in August shooting that killed 36-year-old, ...

One person has died and at least 38 people have become ill following an E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots, according to federal health officials. The Centers for Disease Control and ...