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]