Escherichia coli ATCC8739
Escherichia coli ATCC 8739 is a non-pathogenic, biosafety level 1 laboratory reference strain used extensively as a negative control or challenge organism in antimicrobial and microbiological assays. It is not a probiotic strain; its primary function in research is as a standardized test organism to evaluate the inhibitory activity of other agents, including probiotic bacteria. The available indexed papers confirm this role — this strain appears as a target in antimicrobial studies rather than as a health-promoting organism. It is not intended for human supplementation and should not be described in probiotic terms.
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Share of this strain's 1 body-system-tagged papers that concern each system. Research coverage, not measured effect.
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11 papers reference this strain in the probiotic database.
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