coliflora

English translation: normal E. coli, E. coli flora

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Italian term or phrase:coliflora
English translation:normal E. coli, E. coli flora
Entered by: Anne Schulz

05:32 Jan 29, 2017
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / microbiology
Italian term or phrase: coliflora
This is from a (Swiss) medical history of an immunocompromised patient:

Diarrea G1 dal 14 al 16.01; eseguiti colturali (coliflora assente) e ricerca per clostridium difficile, negativa

Coliflora is a rare term on the internet! Is anyone able to confirm that they mean coliforms or, more specifically, fecal coliforms? And why would they be absent in fecal sample? Isn't a fecal sample a natural habitat for fecal coliforms? After all this isn't drinking water!
Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Local time: 19:36
normal E. coli
Explanation:
E.coli bacteria come in a large variety of strains, some of the normal and helpful, others producing strong pathogenic toxins. The "flora" usually refers to the normal inhabitants present in a healthy bowel environment. Hence, you could say, "normal E.coli absent" or, as philgoddard suggested, "E. coli flora absent".
Absent (or reduced) they are, if they have been flushed out of the bowel by severe diarrhea, or if they have been overgrown and displaced by other microorganisms in an unfavourable bowel environment which may be caused by e.g. unhealthy nutrition or longstanding antibiotic therapy.

"Coliform bacteria", as you said, is a term used to describe the presence or absence of fecal bacteria in drinking water. These tests mostly involve biochemical rather than (more expensive and time-consuming) cultural methods, and cannot reliably distinguish between E.coli and other similar fecal bacteria such as Klebsiella or Enterobacter.
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Anne Schulz
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Local time: 19:36
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3 +1normal E. coli
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couple of refs.
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normal E. coli


Explanation:
E.coli bacteria come in a large variety of strains, some of the normal and helpful, others producing strong pathogenic toxins. The "flora" usually refers to the normal inhabitants present in a healthy bowel environment. Hence, you could say, "normal E.coli absent" or, as philgoddard suggested, "E. coli flora absent".
Absent (or reduced) they are, if they have been flushed out of the bowel by severe diarrhea, or if they have been overgrown and displaced by other microorganisms in an unfavourable bowel environment which may be caused by e.g. unhealthy nutrition or longstanding antibiotic therapy.

"Coliform bacteria", as you said, is a term used to describe the presence or absence of fecal bacteria in drinking water. These tests mostly involve biochemical rather than (more expensive and time-consuming) cultural methods, and cannot reliably distinguish between E.coli and other similar fecal bacteria such as Klebsiella or Enterobacter.

Anne Schulz
Germany
Local time: 19:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thank you.

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agree  Inter-Tra: 'normal' is reduntant. 'E.' stands for 'Escherichia' https://healdove.com/misc/Escherichia-or-E-coli-Intestinal-F...
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Reference: couple of refs.

Reference information:
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Enterobacteriaceae | Sherris Medical Microbiology, 6e ...
accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?legacysectionid=rya_ch33
The reservoir for these infections is the patient's own intestinal E coli flora, which ...... Bacteremia is most common and severe in the immunocompromised .... are generally present in Enterobacter species but uniformly absent in Klebsiella.

Probiotics and the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PDF ...
https://www.researchgate.net/.../227628289_Probiotics_and_th...
(80 mg three times daily) to suppress their native E. coli flora. Along with the study, ..... clinical remission was defined as absence of visible blood in. the stools and no .... tions occur in the case of immunocompromised patients or. those with ...

Rachel Fell
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