What are the uses of different strains of E. coli?

E. coli strains are used for a huge variety of roles in research. E. coli is a very common species to use as a model organism for doing bacterial research, due to both the ease of growing it and the long time for which it has been used. read more

E. coli strains can also be used simply to serve as a comparable model for other microbes. An example might be looking at how an E. coli strain can regulate phosphate and compare that to a different bacteria such as M. tuberculosis. read more

Video: E. Coli: Common Strains and Pathogenic Varieties of E. Coli Bacteria For each bacterial species, like E. coli, there can be many different strains. In this lesson we will discuss the common pathogenic strains of E. coli. read more