▪ Abstract The closely related bacterial pathogens Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococci, GC)
and N. meningitidis (meningococci, MC) initiate infection at human mucosal epithelia …

Etiology, transmission and protection: Neisseria gonorrhoeae (the gonococcus) is the
etiological agent for the strictly human sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea. Infections …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium capable of forming
biofilms on surfaces as a survival strategy. It exhibits a large variety of competition/virulence …

The process of DNA donation for natural transformation of bacteria is poorly understood and
has been assumed to involve bacterial cell death. Recently in Neisseria gonorrhoeae we …

Sixty-three Escherichia coli strains isolated from neonatal sepsis or meningitis were studied
and compared with previous data on fecal or urinary pyelonephritis-associated isolates from …

Attachment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to amnion cells in tissue culture is facilitated if the
gonococci bear pili. This has been determined by studying the number of pilated, colony …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes mucosal surface
infections of male and female reproductive tracts, pharynx, rectum, and conjunctiva …

To investigate the significance of silent gene loci for pilus antigenic variation in N.
gonorrhoeae, we determined the nucleotide sequence of the major silent locus, pilS1. The …

Biologists have been fascinated with the com-plexity and multitude of morphologies that
exist in the microscopic world ever since van Leeuwenhoek observed" very little …

The gonococcus and meningococcus, which infect human mucosal surfaces, elaborate a
highly specific proteolytic enzyme which cleaves the immunoglobulin A1 subclass of the …