Health News - Escherichia coli, or commonly abbreviated as E Coli, is one of the main species of gram-negative bacteria. In general, bacteria that were discovered by Theodor Escherich can be found in the human colon. Most Escherichia Coli are harmless, but some, such as E Coli type O157: H7 can cause serious food poisoning in humans.


Escherichia Coli are harmless can benefit humans by producing vitamin K2, or by preventing other bacteria in the gut.E coli is widely used in genetic engineering technology. Usually used as vectors to insert specific genes are desired to be developed. Escherichia Coli was chosen because it grows very fast and easy handling. Countries in Europe are now very wary of the spread of the bacteria E coli , they even forbid import of vegetables from outside Europe