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coli|ˈkəʊlaɪ| [L., gen. of colon colon1.] Shortened form of Bacillus coli or Bacterium coli: a bacterium, now called Escherichia coli, inhabiting the colon or gut of man and animals; usu. attrib. or Comb., as coli-bacilluria, the presence of Escherichia coli in the urine; coli-bacillus; coli-group; coli-like adj.; coli-phage, a bacteriophage that attacks Escherichia coli; coli-typhoid adj., (a group) composed of Escherichia coli and typhoid bacillus. (See also coliform a.2 and n.)
1894P. Frankland Micro-Organisms in Water 411 The Coli bacillus has invariably fewer cilia than the typhoid. 1897Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. IV. 439 Though coli abounds in small and typhoid in longer elements, cover-glass specimens of both yield all sizes. Ibid. 440 Organisms of the coli-typhoid group. 1901Jrnl. Hygiene I. 435 Laboratory tap-water..normally contains very few coli bacilli. 1902Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 5/2 Bacillus coli, or other coli-like microbes. 1903A. C. Houston in Local Govt. Board Rep. Med. Officer 1901–2 (Cd. 1344) 468 The somewhat atypical members of the coli group persist longer than the strictly typical. 1910Practitioner Apr. 449 Urotropin..appears to be of comparatively little use in the case of coli-bacilluria. 1936Discovery Oct. 329/1 Friedländer's bacillus (the first mutative form of the coli bacillus). 1945Jrnl. Cellular & Comparative Physiol. XXV. 9 Lysozyme had no visible clearing effect on unirradiated coli even at a concentration of 0·005 mg/cc. 1969W. J. Brammer in Campbell & Sargent Techniques in Protein Biosynthesis II. i. 2 Acridine mutants of the rII system of coli-phage T4. |