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Persistence Dynamics of Antimicrobial-Resistant Neisseria in the Pharynx of Rhesus Macaques.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 22 Jul 2020
Thapa Eliza, Knauss Hanna M, Colvin Benjamin A, Fischer Benjamin A, Weyand Nathan J
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Pharyngeal infections by Neisseria gonorrhoeae are often asymptomatic, making them difficult to treat. However, in vivo animal modeling of human pharyngeal infections by pathogenic Neisseria species is challenging due to numerous host tropism barriers. We have relied on rhesus macaques to investigate pharyngeal persistence of naturally occurring Neisseria species in response to antibiotics. These species include...
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