The culprit is an especially nasty strain of E. coli, which normally resides harmlessly in the gut.
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Four people including a three-year-old girl, had the same strain of E.coli, after buying food from the premises.
Acidophilus kills the harmful bacteria strain of E. coli in the intestinal tract.
She died in the hospital's intensive care department one week later, from septicaemia and a rare strain of E. coli.
Half of the victims have been hospitalised, a high rate that may indicate an especially virulent strain of E. coli.
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The strain of E. coli linked to the Farm Rich brand products is rare, and some laboratories still can't identify it.
Seven people have been infected by the 0157 strain of E. coli at Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield over July and August.
Samples of the strain of E. coli were collected from those products in the Texas and New York homes of two people who became ill.
No one is sure how the apples became contaminated, but medical experts said the strain of E. coli typically lives in the intestines of cows.
If a polluted water sample contains a strain of E. coli that is not found in humans, you can be pretty sure that sewage is not the source of the pollution.
Within hours thousands of news services have been marking the geography of death and illness, pointing to an usually aggressive outbreak of what appears to be a rampant strain of E. coli.
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So far it has worked for the 0157 strain of E.coli, which causes some of the most severe cases of food poisoning - occasionally proving fatal if the victim is an infant, elderly or already weak.
Earlier this year, when BGI sequenced the strain of E. coli that had infected 3, 000 people in Germany, it instantly posted the data online, enabling a global crowdsourced analysis that identified the strain within a week.
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To create the fuel, the researchers, who were funded by the oil company Shell and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, used a strain of E. coli that usually takes in sugar and then turns it into fat.
To prove it worked, he started with a strain of the E. coli bacterium that produced small quantities of lycopene, the pigment that makes tomatoes red.
While some of the samples have tested negative for the rare strain of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), the results of other tests are still pending and expected later on Wednesday.
More than two weeks after a food poisoning epidemic broke out in northern Germany, at least 14 people have been reported dead and hundreds have fallen sick from an extremely dangerous strain of the E. coli bacteria found on imported cucumbers.
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Each year about 76, 000 people get Linda Rivera's strain of bacteria -- E. coli O157-- according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But in 1982, scientists found one E. coli strain, O157:H7, in sheep that had changed in a way that caused it to spew out toxic chemicals.
The planet now harbors a strain of the famous bacterium Escherichia coli (e. coli) that can chew up plants and excrete biodiesel.
The planet now harbors a strain of the famous bacteria Escherichia coli (e. coli) that can chew up plants and excrete biodiesel.
Unpasteurized milk can carry salmonella, campylobacter, and E. coli O157: H7, the strain that came to public attention in the nineties when four children died after eating contaminated meat at Jack in the Box.
Bangor University E.coli researcher Dr Davey Jones said the 0157 strain seen in the nursery children was especially nasty.
"I said in the huddle, 'E, throw it up to me, '" said Nicks, who nursed a bad hamstring strain all week.
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