Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bacteria inhabiting the gut of man and animals, by 1921, short for Escherichia coli (1911), named for German physician Theodor Escherich (1857-1911), + Latin genitive of colon "colon" (see colon (n.2)).
Wikipedia
E. coli (disambiguation) may refer to:
- Escherichia coli, a bacterium species
- Entamoeba coli, a protozoan parasite species
Usage examples of "e. coli".
Exposed to the kind of stressful opportunities which E. coli would have exploited within a few dozen generations, strain after strain of A.
Persuading E. coli to churn out hormones like insulin or dopamine is simple enough.
That toxin was obviously the result of an evolutionary change in the E. coli that made up the swarm.
Mae, I said, if theres E. coli in the swarm, we can find out by looking at that right now.
He could sacrifice those parts of the experiment that were expendable -- the E. coli cultures, for example.
Evidently the Shiga gene merrily cooperates inside the E. coli body, causing the same production of toxin that it did in Shigella -- and giving dysentery to the unlucky animal infected by that [[E.
But the enthusiastic reductionist manifesto with which the project began has not so far yielded great neurobiological dividends in the form of universal mechanisms of the sort which E. coli provided.
IMPOSSIBLE VARIANT - NO ANIMATE E. COLI IN BOWEL - CONTAMINATE SAMPLE.