In a joint effort with various international institutions, researchers from the University of Innsbruck have described the movement patterns of the bacterium Escherichia coli. To do so, they used an ...

Birds can spread dangerous pathogens between domestic and wild animals. The avian influenza virus (AIV), for example, prefers to live in waterbirds, often as variants of low pathogenicity. However, ...

E. coli is a well-known risk factor in food preparation and hygiene, but how does it cause damage in the body and how does an outbreak have the power to send hundreds to hospital, potentially with ...