Although it is convention to italicise species names in scientific outputs, you may notice that our metadata records do not do so. 

For example: Antibiotic resistance and resistant genes in Escherichia coli from human, poultry and environmental samples in urban and rural Bangladesh (2017-18)

Our metadata needs to comply with metadata standards such as UK GEMINI . Unfortunately this means it must be provided as plain text and so cannot support italics or any other formatting such as bold or coloured text.