Meet the editor

Marjanca Starčič Erjavec, PhD, is a professor of molecular biology at the Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She finished the BSc study of biology and the MSc study of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She defended her PhD thesis in the field of bacterial molecular genetics at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is involved in teaching several molecular

biological and genetic courses. She was a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and USA and also at the Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms, Ural Branch Russian Academy of Science, Perm, Russia. She conducts research on horizontal gene transfer, including plasmids, natural and clinical *E. coli* strains, and microbiota.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Expression

*by Elif Bozcal*

**Section 3**

Sensitizers

*by Marjanca Starčič Erjavec*

Enteropathogenic *Escherichia coli by Isabel Cristina Affonso Scaletsky*

*Escherichia coli* and Food Safety *by Gözde Ekici and Emek Dümen*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Versatility of *Escherichia coli* **25**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 51**

**Chapter 4 69**

Preventing *Escherichia coli* Infections **83**

**Chapter 5 85**

**Chapter 6 101**

**Chapter 7 121**

Human and Veterinary Vaccines against Pathogenic *Escherichia coli*

Photodynamic Inactivation of *Escherichia coli* with Cationic Porphyrin

*by Jin Matsumoto, Tomoko Matsumoto, Kazuya Yasuda and Masahide Yasuda*

*by Mariano Larzábal, Angel A. Cataldi and Daniel A. Vilte*

Introductory Chapter: The Versatile *Escherichia coli*

*Xiu-Hua Hu, Hao Wang and Lai-Cheuk Nelson Lai*

Insight into the mobilome of *Escherichia coli*

*Escherichia coli*: A Versatile Platform for Recombinant Protein

*by Wan-Keung Raymond Wong, Ka-Lun Ng, Thiyagarajan Sivakumar,* 
