E COLI


Meaning of E COLI in English

noun (plural ~) Date: 1926 an enterobacterium ( Escherichia coli ) that is used in public health as an indicator of fecal pollution (as of water or food) and in medicine and genetics as a research organism and that occurs in various strains that may live as harmless inhabitants of the human lower intestine or may produce a toxin causing intestinal illness

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