E.Coli

Escherichia coli, also known as E. coli, is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms

• Species: E. coli
• Shape: rod-shaped usmslab.com
• Class: Gammaproteobacteria
• Genus: Escherichia
• Order: Enterobacterales
• Family: Enterobacteriaceae
• Phylum: Pseudomonadota

--Transmittion-- The types of E. coli that can cause illness can be transmitted through contaminated water or food, or through contact with animals or people.

--Presentation--

E.Coli can present in Rabbits normally as lesions in the intestines ,diarrhea , or as Pneumonia when inhaled and the lungs infected.

• CDC.gov E.Coli
• Attaching and effacing activities of rabbit and human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in pig and rabbit intestines Authors: H W Moon, S C Whipp, R A Argenzio, M M Levine, R A Giannella 1983

• [https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm/143.4_Pt_1.797?journalCode=arrd Lung Vascular Injury after Administration of Viable Hemolysin-forming Escherichia coli in Isolated Rabbit Lungs

Werner Seeger , Rudolf Obernitz , Michael Thomas , Dieter Walmrath , N. Suttorn , Ian B. Holland , Friedrich Grimminger , Bettina EberspäCher , Ferdinand Hugo , and Sucharit Bhakdi 1990]

• Induction of severe vascular leakage by low doses of Escherichia coli hemolysin in perfused rabbit lungs

• [https://www.jimmunol.org/content/164/10/5439.short Effect of CD14 Blockade in Rabbits with Escherichia coli Pneumonia and Sepsis

Charles W. Frevert, Gustavo Matute-Bello, Shawn J. Skerrett, Richard B. Goodman, Osamu Kajikawa, Chanchai Sittipunt and Thomas R. Martin J Immunol May 15, 2000, ]

• Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Prevalence in Laboratory Rabbits 2013

• [https://www.jci.org/articles/view/110737 Specific adherence of Escherichia coli (strain RDEC-1) to membranous (M) cells of the Peyer's patch in Escherichia coli diarrhea in the rabbit.

L R Inman and J R Cantey 1983]

• [https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/135/3/454/2189556 Diarrhea Due to Escherichia coli in the Rabbit: A Novel Mechanism Get access Arrow

J. Robert Cantey, R. K. Blake 1977]

• The hemolysin of escherichia coli S. Bhakdi, N. Mackman, G. Menestrina, L. Gray, F. Hugo, W. Seeger & I. B. Holland European Journal of Epidemiology volume 4, pages135–143 (1988)

• [https://www.jci.org/articles/view/114144 Thromboxane-mediated hypertension and vascular leakage evoked by low doses of Escherichia coli hemolysin in rabbit lungs.

W Seeger, H Walter, N Suttorp, M Muhly, and S Bhakdi 1989]

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--other studies of interest--

• [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034324/ The Rabbit as a New Reservoir Host of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Alexis Garcíacorresponding author* and James G. Fox* 2003]

• [https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/iai.51.1.16-23.1986 Experimental infection of infant rabbits with verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli

Authors: C H Pai, J K Kelly, G L Meyers 1986]