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Taxonomy
Family: Enterobacteriaceae, genus: Escherichia coli
E. albertii, E. fergusonii, E. hermannii, E. vulneris

Natural habitats
Widely distributed in nature, water, soil, foods and clinical samples.

The genus Escherichia will occupy the last part of the small intestine and the large intestine in humans and warm-blooded animals. In more than 99% of the isolates, it is a Escherichia coli.

E. coli is a good indicator of the water it is clean. (fecal contamination)

Clinical significance
They are generally located in the intestinal lumen (colon), but some strains can cause a variety of infections, enteritis, septicemia, peritonitis, urinary infections, meningitis (neonatal) etc, in humans and animals.