Article
Gonococci are survivors.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1990
Sparling P F, Tsai J, Cornelissen C N
Abstract excerpt
Gonococci are capable of prolonged survival in untreated infection, and frequently reinfect persons with repeated and recent infection, despite considerable mucosal and systemic immune response to infection. Multiple mechanisms help to explain how this is achieved, including variations in surface...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Antigenic Variation
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Binding, Competitive
- Gonorrhea
- Humans
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Peptide Hydrolases
- Phenotype
- Serine Endopeptidases