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- He discovered E.coli in 1885 whilst on the hunt of the cause of fatal intestinal diseases in children. He studied infant feces for the causative organism and amongst his inventory of microbes was a quick-growing rod-shaped bacterium he called Bacillus communis coli. It was named E.coli after his death.
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In 1885, the pioneering Bavarian paediatrician Theodor Escherich was battling against neonatal dysentery when he first isolated Bacterium coli commune from the stool of infants in the laboratory of Otto von Bollinger in Munich.1 Later known as Escherichia coli, this organism has shaped bacterial genetics and its 130 year history is synonymous ...
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Theodor Escherich (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʔɛʃəʁɪç]; 29 November 1857 – 15 February 1911) was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at universities in Graz and Vienna. He discovered and described the bacterium Escherichia coli.
E. coli was first isolated and described by the Bavarian doctor, Theodor Escherich, in 1885 ( 1 ). As a pediatrician, Escherich was interested in the role of microbes in digestion and intestinal disease, primarily because diarrhea was a leading cause of infant mortality in Europe at the time ( 2 ).
- Jonathan N. V. Martinson, Seth T. Walk
- 2020
Theodor Escherich, the paediatrician who discovered E. coli, was born in Germany in 1857, and began his medical education at the University of Würzburg. In 1884, he moved to Munich and...
- Jörg Hacker, Gabriele Blum-Oehler
- 2007
Jun 24, 2022 · In 1885, German-Austrian pediatrician Theodor Escherich identified the Bacterium coli commune as the causative agent of childhood diarrhea (Friedmann 2014 ), and a few decades later the bacterium was officially named after its discoverer— Escherichia coli was born.
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Aug 2, 2022 · As described in detail by Friedmann ( 1 ), Theodor Escherich was a prominent 19th century physician-scientist who brought Robert Koch’s methods to pediatrics and, as one of the first to probe the microbiome, founded the field of intestinal pathology.
Theodor Escherich. 1857-1911. German bacteriologist who first isolated the E. coli bacteria. Escherich first discovered the bacteria Bacterium coli (later renamed Escherichia coli in his honor) in the intestinal tract of humans and animals. While the benign form of the bacterium is used in the digestive process, harmful strains of E. coli can ...
