Escherichia coli Nissle 1917

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Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Escherichia
Species: E. coli
Strain: E. c.  strain Nissle 1917
Trionomial name
Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917

Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 is a strain of Escherichia coli that was isolated from the feces of a German soldier in 1917 by the German researcher Alfred Nissle. Since that time it has been widely studied as a probiotic and several marketed probiotics include it and naturally colonizes the human intestines and has positive probiotic properties.[1]

References

  1. PMID 27619890. Open access icon