escherichia coli is the full name of e coli.
escherichia coli is the full name of e coli.
what is the full name of e coli?
escherichia coli
shigatoxigenic "escherichia coli (stec) and verotoxigenic "e. coli (vtec) are strains of the bacterium "escherichia coli" that produce either shiga toxin or shiga-like toxin (verotoxin). only a minority of the strains cause illness in humans. the ones that do are collectively known as enterohemorrhagic "e. coli" (ehec) and are major causes of foodborne illness. when infecting humans, they often cause gastroenteritis, enterocolitis, and bloody diarrhea (hence the name "enterohemorrhagic") and sometimes cause a severe complication called hemolytic-uremic syndrome (hus). the group and its subgroups are known by various names. they are distinguished from other strains of intestinal pathogenic "e. coli" including enterotoxigenic "e. coli" (etec), enteropathogenic "e. coli" (epec), enteroinvasive "e. coli" (eiec), enteroaggregative "e. coli" (eaec), and diffusely adherent "e. coli" (daec).
shigatoxigenic and verotoxigenic escherichia coli
ullrich was the first person to clone a human gene, insulin, into e coli. he was one of the first employees of genetech. while working for genetech in 1979, he obtained a human insulinoma tissue sample from a surgeon in munich. the tumor had just been extracted from a woman. ullrich purified the insulin mrna from this sample and cloned it into a vector that he inserted into e coli. thus, he produced a strain of e coli that would manufacture human insulin. this breakthrough eventually led to eli lilly producing recombinant human insulin and providing it to patients.
axel ullrich