Overnight cultures of E. coli (2 ml) were subjected to alkaline lysis, as in the large-scale separation. Cell debris was removed by centrifugation and plasmid was precipitated by 0.7 volume of ...

A new study finds that two subtypes of pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) produce five to 16 times more protective capsular “slime” when Enterococcus faecalis (EF) is present. The finding could ...

To prepare the cloning vectors, transform separately pET11a-link-NGFP and pMRBAD-link-CGFP into an E. coli strain that gives high-quality plasmid DNA (for example, DH10B or XL1-Blue) and plate ...

“E. coli is a bug that we all have in our intestines,” explains Britain's leading expert on E. coli, the microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington. “The vast majority of the hundreds of different ...

McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers have been linked to an outbreak of E. coli, a bacteria that can make people sick. The outbreak has killed one person in Colorado, according to the U.S ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Wednesday reported more cases of E. coli poisoning among people who ate at McDonald’s, as government investigators seeking the outbreak’s source ...