Escherichia coli

An outbreak of E. coli infection in the UK, linked to salad leaves which ended up in prepacked sandwiches and similar foods from several retailers, makes me revisit a post from 2015 (that long ago!) and update it.  Here are some resources, first about Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC), which is causing the problem in the UK, and then about E. coli and E. coli infection in general.

There is a United Kingdom Health Security Agency press release about the current STEC outbreak in the UK.

Public Health Scotland have information specifically about STEC, as does the Northern Ireland Public Health Agency, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Then there is general E. coli and health information from the United Kingdom Health Security Agency, and information from NHS Scotland (NHS Inform) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And then information in EcoliWiki, about non pathogenic E. coli.  PortEco, the producer of this site, is described in this 2014 paper in the annual Database issue of Nucleic Acids Research (if you use the data resource, it is accepted practice to cite the paper, and not the website where the resource lives).   EcoCyc is a database for E. coli K-12 MG1655, performing "literature-based curation of the entire genome" and covering transcriptional regulation, transporters, and metabolic pathways.   There is an overview in the Encyclopedia of Life, which includes articles, data and maps.

A page of results for a search of the National Center for Biotechnology Information site for sources from all NCBI databases includes a direct link to the Taxonomy database.    It includes a PubMed link which gives you absolutely everything, so this PubMed link, specifically for Shiga toxin producing E. coli papers from 2024, might be more effective.