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Defining E. coli
Discovering E. coli
Identifying E. coli
Epidemiology
Strains of E. coli
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In the gastrointestinal tract.
Where can I be found in humans and animals?
100
He discovered E. coli in 1885.
Who is Theodor Escherich?
100
Negative
What would I look like viewed through a microscope after gram staining?
100
Person to person
What is my most common route of transmission?
100
Shiga Toxin
What toxin do I produce?
200
700
How many serotypes have been identified?
200
Soil and water
What two areas can I be found in besides food?
200
Bacillus or bacilli
What shape am I?
200
The study of the spread, control and prevention of disease in populations.
What is epidemiology?
200
The leading cause of travelers' disease.
What is Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli?
300
Enterobacteriaceae
What family do I belong to?
300
Vitamin K and B
What can I produce and absorp from your diet?
300
Can live with or without oxygen.
What is a facultative anaerobe?
300
Water that is close to or downstream from livestock.
How can livestock contaminate water?
300
A close relation to Shigella.
What is Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli?
400
Fecal contamination
What does coliform presence in water indicate?
400
Helps in the digestion of food.
What benefit does E. coli provide after you have eaten food?
400
Flagella
What is capable of movement?
400
Hand-washing
What sanitary method is still the best practice to keep you safe?
400
The leading cause of diarrhea in infants in underdeveloped countries or areas of poor sanitation.
What is Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli?
500
90 days
How many days can I survive outside of a host?
500
About 1%.
How much E. coli resides in our GI tract?
500
Eosin Methylene Blue
When grown on this type of media I produce dark, blue-black colonies with metallic green sheen?
500
Food poisoning or foodborne illness
What happens when meat or poultry is not cooked to the right temperature?
500
The causes of bloody diarrhea, which can progress to the fatal hemolytic uremic syndrome.
What is Enterohemorrhagic E. coli?