How E. coli exploit fluid flow and channel shape to swim upstream and cause infections

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...

Researchers uncover how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...
Science Daily

Scientists shocked to find E. coli spreads as fast as the swine flu

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...
New Scientist

Extraordinary pictures show what a common antibiotic does to E. coli

The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution microscopy, which could help us develop new treatments for drug-resistant ...
Medscape

The RTX Pore-forming Toxin α-hemolysin of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(1):73-84. Work in the Mulvey laboratory is supported by NIH grants AI095647, AI090369 and AI088086. TJ Wiles was funded by NIH Genetics Training Grant T32-GM007464. The ...