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Escherichia Coli INTRODUCTION Escherichia coli is one of the most frequent causes of many common bacterial infections including cholecystitis, bacteraemia, cholangitis, urinary tract infection (UTI), and traveller’s diarrhea and other clinical infections. The genus Escherichia is named after Theodor Esherich who isolated the type species of the genus. Escherichia organisms are gram-negative bacilli that exist singly or.