Little Conqueror

There is a type of tiny microbe that cannot be seen with the naked eye and is the cause of traveler's diarrhea and diarrhea in children, called E. coli bacteria.

Theodor Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician who isolated this bacterium from children's feces in 1885 which later called as Escherichia coli. Escherichia was coined in honor of the discoverer of bacteria and coli from the place where it resides, i.e. intestine or colon.

E. coli can be transmitted through undercooked meat, milk that has not been properly pasteurized, and raw fruits or vegetables that have not been properly washed. Likewise, hands infected with this bacterium can play a role in its spread.

It is interesting to know that measuring the growth rate of this bacterium in laboratory conditions, it was observed that if there were 5 bacteria on a hamburger, after 7 hours the number of them would reach to ten million and after three further days, they could cover the whole earth surface if they weren’t destroyed.