Ep 37 E. coli (unless it's beets)
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Theodore Escherichia
Theodore Escherich was looking at baby poop under the microscope and noticed a bunch of rod shaped bacteria. He had been waging a full on war against diarrhea, believing it to be one of the biggest killers of infants under his care. And he found E. coli in both healthy and unhealthy children. But he didn't really consider it to be that interesting of a finding but published it anyway.
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