Foodborne illness costs Americans $75 billion annually in premature deaths, medical care and lost productivity, study finds.

Three Minnesotans who were hospitalized and suffered lasting injuries were served undercooked hamburgers tainted with E. coli ...

Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are working on a new Salmonella outbreak of unknown origin. The ...

Moreover, E. coli is not only a harmless intestinal inhabitant, but is also a highly versatile pathogen that contributes significantly to the burden of infectious disease. Theodor Escherich ...

When E. coli fail to attach and colonize the gut, the pathogen benignly moves through and passes out of the body. The research describes a previously unknown role in the gut for a receptor, DRD2.

Since 2006, when an E. coli outbreak devastated the U.S. leafy greens industry, growers have been pressured to remove natural habitat to keep wildlife—and the foodborne pathogens they sometimes ...

Picking off pathogens The research partnership’s exploration ... “We found some volcanic ash produced in Thailand that absorbed E. coli.” As the world anticipates the emergence of new ...

Researchers have documented the first enteroinvasive E. coli outbreak in Thailand. An enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) outbreak affecting 154 people was ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recalled certain products of morbier cheese in B.C. due to pathogenic E.

Damages are being sought in excess of $50,000. “E. coli is an invisible pathogen so people can’t protect themselves; we rely on the food supplier to keep it safe and, of course, the restaurant ...

Coli with counts exceeding 16 per 100 ml. Safe drinking water should ideally have zero E. coli. In fact, presence of E. coli indicates there are other harmful pathogens in the water. The water sources ...