A recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases outlined the clinical characteristics of invasive Escherichia Coli disease by stratifying cases by acquisition setting, patient age and infection outcome.
“Escherichia coli is a commensal bacterium from the gastrointestinal tract (GI). However, pathogenic strains of E. coli cause significant morbidity and are one of the leading causes of deaths linked to bacterial infections, globally,” a representative from Janssen told Healio. “E. coli strains that can move outside of the GI tract and infect otherwise sterile parts