When intestinal bacteria go surfing
Friday, March 20, 2009 - 07:08
in Health & Medicine
The bacterium Escherichia coli is part of the healthy human intestinal flora. However, E. coli also has pathogenic relatives that trigger diarrhoea illnesses: enterohaemorrhagic E.coli bacteria. During the course of an infection they infest the intestinal mucosa, causing injury in the process, in contrast to benign bacteria...