| Potential water contaminator | 28 |
| Dangerous bacteria | 18 |
| Food-poisoning bacteria | 23 |
| Scary bacteria | 14 |
| Rod-shaped bacteria | 19 |
| Reason for a food recall | 24 |
| Notorious bacteria | 18 |
| Meat contaminant | 16 |
| Bad bacteria | 12 |
| Amoxicillin target | 18 |
| 2006 spinach invader | 20 |
| Rod-shaped bacterium | 20 |
| Researcher's bacteria | 25 |
| Intestinal bacteria | 19 |
| Harmful bacteria | 16 |
| Bad burger bacteria | 19 |
| Bacteria related to a spinach recall | 36 |
| Bacteria in uncooked food | 25 |
| Microscopic menace | 18 |
| Gastroenteritis cause | 21 |
| Food poisoning cause | 20 |
| Common bacterium | 16 |
| Bacteria in undercooked meat | 28 |
| Unfriendly bacteria | 19 |
| Type of bacteria | 16 |
| Subject of a 2006 outbreak | 26 |
| Serious bacteria | 16 |
| Sanitation worry | 16 |
| Rod-shaped germ | 15 |
| Rod-shaped disease carrier | 26 |
| Potentially dangerous strain | 28 |
| Potential cause of a food recall | 32 |
| One cause of food poisoning | 27 |
| Health department concern | 25 |
| Food safety threat | 18 |
| Culprit in some food recalls | 28 |
| Cousin of salmonella | 20 |
| Cause of some food recalls | 26 |
| Cause of an intestinal problem | 30 |
| Bane of uncooked meat | 21 |
| Bacterial strain | 16 |
| Bacteria related to many food recalls | 37 |
| Bacteria in the news | 20 |
| Bacteria in some food poisoning | 31 |
| Bacteria in rare meat | 21 |
| Bacteria in an outbreak | 23 |
| Bacteria found in the GI tract | 30 |
| Bacteria discovered by Theodor Escherich | 40 |
| 2011 outbreak cause | 19 |
| ''Microcosm'' subject | 37 |
| Worrisome food contamination | 28 |
| Unwanted breakout | 17 |
| Undercooked meat danger | 23 |
| Troublesome food bacteria | 25 |
| Threatening bacteria | 20 |
| They thrive on culture | 22 |
| Theodor Escherich's discovery | 33 |
| Strand in the water? | 20 |
| Spinach recall bacteria | 23 |
| Source of some stomachaches | 27 |
| Source of some food poisoning | 29 |
| Sometimes-dangerous strain | 26 |
| Some of its strains are sickening | 33 |
| Slaughterhouse contaminant | 26 |
| Slaughterhouse concern | 22 |
| Scary strain | 12 |
| Scary bacterium | 15 |
| Rod-shaped pathogen | 19 |
| Rod-shaped intestinal bacteria | 30 |
| Reason for some produce recalls | 31 |
| Reason for some food recalls | 28 |
| Reason for a recall | 19 |
| Reason for a market recall | 26 |
| Potentially pathogenic strain | 29 |
| Possible water contaminator | 27 |
| Possible food-recall cause | 26 |
| Peritonitis cause, perhaps | 26 |
| Periodic produce outbreak | 25 |
| Notorious bacillus | 18 |
| Most of its strains are harmless | 32 |
| Meat-contaminating bacteria | 27 |
| Meat problem | 12 |
| Likely find in a gut check? | 27 |
| Large-intestine resident | 24 |
| Large-intestine bacteria | 24 |
| Lake bacterium | 14 |
| It might give you a gut feeling | 31 |
| It may be present in undercooked meat | 37 |
| It has sickening strains | 24 |
| It can cause urinary tract infections | 37 |
| Intestinal bacteria, for short | 30 |
| Gut flora | 9 |
| Gut bacteria | 12 |
| GI tract bacterium | 18 |
| Gastrointestinal danger | 23 |
| Gastroenteritis cause, perhaps | 30 |
| Gastroenteritis cause, maybe | 28 |
| Food-spoiling bacteria | 22 |
| Food-recall bacteria | 20 |
| Food recall reason | 18 |