Scientists have found a way to use common bacteria as tiny, green chemical factories to replace a process that currently ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections, with catheter-associated UTIs accounting for more than half of infections contracted in hospitals. When detected early ...

Public health officials in Idaho are investigating an outbreak of E. coli infections traced to unpasteurized, raw milk. As of Feb. 5, there were nine confirmed patients including two children, ...

After a spill from a massive sewage pipe in the Potomac River, testing revealed dangerously high E. coli levels extending from Montgomery County into Washington, D.C. A week after a massive ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. The study opens the door to potential new treatments for bacterial ...

Grass-fed ground beef that was distributed to six states has been recalled over possible E. coli contamination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall on more than 2,800 pounds of raw 90/10 ground beef processed by Mountain West Food Group, LLC, from ...

King County Public Health is investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to a teriyaki restaurant in Bellevue. Five people have fallen sick — four of them seriously enough to be hospitalized. All of them ...

Five people became sick, including four who were hospitalized, after eating food at a teriyaki restaurant in Bellevue. Three other individuals who didn’t eat at the restaurant also became sick with a ...

Bacteria that often cause urinary infections can spread as rapidly as swine flu. But E. coli that are resistant to several classes of antibiotics behave differently. Escherichia coli (E. coli) are the ...

German officials have revealed a rare type of E. coli is responsible for a serious outbreak in the country. The National Reference Center (NRZ) for Salmonella and other bacterial enteritis pathogens ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...