[HTML][HTML] Neisseria gonorrhoeae Modulates Iron-Limiting Innate Immune Defenses in Macrophages

SM Zughaier, JL Kandler, WM Shafer - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a strict human pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted
infection termed gonorrhea. The gonococcus can survive extracellularly and intracellularly …

A bacterial siren song: intimate interactions between Neisseria and neutrophils

AK Criss, HS Seifert - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis are Gram-negative bacterial pathogens
that are exquisitely adapted for growth at human mucosal surfaces and for efficient …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae phagosomes delay fusion with primary granules to enhance bacterial survival inside human neutrophils

MB Johnson, AK Criss - Cellular microbiology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Symptomatic infection with N eisseria gonorrhoeae (Gc) promotes inflammation driven by
polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN s, neutrophils), yet some Gc survive PMN exposure …

Biology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the Clinical Picture of Infection

CA Ison - Sexually transmitted infections and sexually transmitted …, 2011 - Springer
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the causative bacterium of gonorrhoea, the second most common
bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI). It is an obligate human pathogen and colonises …

[HTML][HTML] Murine host response to Neisseria gonorrhoeae upper genital tract infection reveals a common transcriptional signature, plus distinct inflammatory responses …

IP Francis, EA Islam, AC Gower… - Bmc Genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background The emergence of fully antimicrobial resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae has led
global public health agencies to identify a critical need for next generation anti-gonococcal …

Molecular mechanisms of antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

HS Seifert - Molecular and Cell Biology of Sexually Transmitted …, 1992 - Springer
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the causative agent of the sexually transmitted disease
gonorrhoea. Gonorrhoea has been recorded in man throughout the medieval and modern …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Drug Resistance, Mouse Models, and Vaccine Development

PA Rice, WM Shafer, S Ram… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Gonorrhea, an obligate human infection, is on the rise worldwide and gonococcal strains
resistant to many antibiotics are emerging. Appropriate antimicrobial treatment and …

The Molecular Mechanisms Used by Neisseria gonorrhoeae To Initiate Infection Differ between Men and Women

JL Edwards, MA Apicella - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
The molecular mechanisms used by the gonococcus to initiate infection exhibit gender
specificity. The clinical presentations of disease are also strikingly different upon comparison …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the host defense in ascending infections of human fallopian tube

JD Lenz, JP Dillard - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes mucosal surface
infections of male and female reproductive tracts, pharynx, rectum, and conjunctiva …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of bacterial internalization by host cells using a β-lactamase reporter strain: Neisseria gonorrhoeae invasion into cervical epithelial cells …

SE Bish, W Song, DC Stein - Microbes and infection, 2008 - Elsevier
NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE: can invade into cervical epithelial cells to overcome this host
defense barrier. We developed a β-lactamase reporter system that allowed us to quantify at …