London [UK], November 5 (ANI): Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. Coli bacteria can spread between people, and one strain moves as fast as swine flu.

Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, scientists modelled bacterial transmission rates and discovered key differences between strains.

Their work offers a new way to monitor and control antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both communities and hospitals.

New research has revealed that Escherichia coli (E. coli), a bacterium that normally lives in the human gut, can spread through populations at a rate comparable to the swine flu.

The researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Oslo, the University of Helsinki, Aalto University in Finland, and their collaborators have been able to estimate

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