{"id":10845,"date":"2020-06-06T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/como-descubridor-e-coli-hizo-examinando-caca-bebe"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:04:30","slug":"como-el-descubridor-de-la-e-coli-lo-hizo-examinando-caca-de-bebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/como-el-descubridor-de-la-e-coli-lo-hizo-examinando-caca-de-bebe\/","title":{"rendered":"How the discoverer of E. coli did it by examining baby poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2ccc62\/1366_2000\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"C\u00f3mo el descubridor de la E. coli lo hizo examinando caca de beb\u00e9\">\n    <\/p>\n<p><em>Escherichia coli<\/em> (E. coli for friends) is a bacteria that is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family and is part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract of homeothermic animals, such as humans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most E. coli do not cause problems<\/strong>. But, some types can cause illness and cause diarrhea. One of them causes traveler&#039;s diarrhea. The worst type of E. coli causes hemorrhagic diarrhea and can sometimes cause kidney failure and even death. <strong>Its discoverer first saw it in baby poop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Theodor Escherich<\/h2>\n<p>The discoverer of this bacteria accomplished this feat by literally examining baby poop. This researcher, in fact, was the first person in the modern era who would show <strong>an important scientific interest in feces<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xataka.com\/medicina-y-salud\/este-primer-organismo-vivo-genoma-totalmente-redisenado-estamos-a-puertas-crear-vida-genuinamente-sintetica\" ><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/970f97\/fluorescent-antibody-stained-photomicrograph-depicted-numbers-of-gram-negative-enteropathogenic-escherichia-coli-725x483\/375_142.jpg\" alt=\"Este es primer organismo vivo con un genoma totalmente redise\u00f1ado: estamos a las puertas de crear una vida genuinamente sint\u00e9tica\"><br \/>\n   <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xataka.com\/medicina-y-salud\/este-primer-organismo-vivo-genoma-totalmente-redisenado-estamos-a-puertas-crear-vida-genuinamente-sintetica\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor m-crosspost\" >In Xataka<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xataka.com\/medicina-y-salud\/este-primer-organismo-vivo-genoma-totalmente-redisenado-estamos-a-puertas-crear-vida-genuinamente-sintetica\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\" >This is the first living organism with a completely redesigned genome: we are on the verge of creating genuinely synthetic life<\/a>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>His name was <strong>Theodor Escherich<\/strong> (hence the name the bacteria would later bear), a young pediatric researcher from Munich who, at the end of the 19th century, put several samples of baby feces under the microscope. Just as described <strong>Bill Bryson<\/strong> in his book <em>The human body<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There he found 19 different types of microorganisms, which represented a considerably higher number than he expected to find given that the only obvious sources of these microorganisms entering the bodies of babies were breast milk and the air they breathed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bacteria has become the most studied microbe in history. <strong>It has more genetic variability between two strains than all the mammals on Earth<\/strong>. But Theodor died even before the bacteria received its name: when he discovered it, he named it <em>common coli bacteria<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/como-descubridor-e-coli-hizo-examinando-caca-bebe?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Jun_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> How the discoverer of E. coli did it by examining baby poop <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Jun_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Jun_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/ThANbZ9NAGY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Escherichia coli (E. coli for friends) is a bacteria that is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family and is part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract of homeothermic animals, such as humans.<\/p>\n<p>Most of \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11223,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}