The E. coli epidemic spreads today to the Bay Area. Please come out to Kepler's to hear me talk about Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life.
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Escherichia coli is a superstar of the microbe world. Like Zelig, E.
Here are some O104:H4 links. The E.coli O104:H4 Genome Analysis Crowdsourcing wiki is also a good source of the latest scientific information. Anyway, links:
One of the lesser known microbiology facts is that the pathogen Shigella is actually E. coli. Since I'll be writing more about this cool bug soon, from the archives, here's an explanation (with a little modification).
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