E. coli
Noun
Meaning
a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety
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Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.
The two-person iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework.
A health alert relating to contamination with the bacteria E. coli of products containing romaine lettuce was issued in November 2019 by the American and Canadian authorities.
And if methylcellulose, a food thickener, sounds unappetizing, it’s reallly nothing compared with the E. coli or salmonella poisoning you can get from regular meat.
E. coli infection usually causes sickness two to eight days later, according to health authorities.
He said the process can remove matter “orders of magnitude smaller” than E. coli bacteria.