Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells.

Escherichia coli is arguably one of the most studied bacterial model systems in modern biology. While E. coli are normally rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria, they are known to undergo conditional morphology changes under environmental and nutrient stress. In this study, using an infection-based in-v...

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Published in:	PLoS Biology
Main Authors:	Alaska Pokhrel, Lachlan Chisholm, Ariana Costas, Matthew Pittorino, Iain G Duggin, Bill Söderström
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-09-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003366