Lactate Stimulation of Gonococcal Metabolism in Media Containing Glucose: Mechanism, Impact on Pathogenicity, and Wider Implications for Other Pathogens

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Over the past decade, studies of Neisseria gonorrhoeae have shown that in media containing glucose, lactate stimulates metabolism, and this could affect pathogenicity (7,19).Recently, the probable mechanism of this stimulation has been identified as one that could apply to other pathogens (68).Earlier studies implicated lactate metabolism in the serum resistance of Haemophilus influenzae (30), and during the past...

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