Sentences with phrase «n. gonorrhoeae»

Additionally, there is research into a vaccine to protect against gonorrhea, although due to the shifty nature of N. gonorrhoeae's genetic sequence this goal has eluded vaccinologists for decades.

These retractile pili, which are usually bundled together for extra strength, can pull 100,000 times the weight of the bacterium, making N. gonorrhoeae among the strongest living organisms; in terms of proportional strength, it is the equivalent of a human lifting 10,000 tons.

Finally, there is even recent evidence showing that N. gonorrhoeae has incorporated a piece of human DNA into its own genome — though at this point, scientists can only speculate as to whether this gives it evolutionary advantages.

Bad Bacteria and Their Harmless Kin Share, Swap Genes (article plus photograph, the latter of which will enlarge if you click on it) time - lapse video of N. gonorrhoeae forming microcolonies

BD Viper System; the BD ProbeTec ET System, which utilizes homogeneous Strand Displacement Amplification (SDA) technology as the amplification method and fluorescent energy transfer (ET) as the detection method to test for the presence of C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae DNA in clinical specimens.

Four of the seven proteins might also be useful in a vaccine for gonorrhea because they are present in three types of N. gonorrhoeae.

Now, a new study reported this month in mBio shows that rather than using sperm as a surfboard, N. gonorrhoeae bacteria shoot cables — called pili — onto proteins in the semen to tow themselves through coital liquid.

Subjecting N. gonorrhoeae to the phenotypic microarray screening method for the first time, Sikora's team focused on seven proteins from the bacteria's cell envelope, which consists of the outer membrane, the cell wall and the inner membrane.

Antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae is a global threat in the control of this infection.

The study, conducted by Yueping Yin of the National Center for STD Control & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Institute of Dermatology, Nanjing, China, and colleagues, also showed that the prevalence of dual resistance to these agents in N. gonorrhoeae isolates increased from 2013 to 2016.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N. gonorrhoeae) strains resistant to azithromycin and / or with decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone are common in China, according to a prevalence study published this week in PLOS Medicine.

However, to our knowledge this is the first national study on susceptibility of N. gonorrhoeae to azithromycin and ceftriaxone in China.

Researchers found that in N. gonorrhoeae, BamE is exposed on the cell surface but is not essential for cell viability.

«That's further evidence that BamE may be a new vaccine target against N. gonorrhoeae,» Sikora said.

It is part of a class of pathogenic bacteria that are becoming increasingly antibiotic - resistant and that includes E. coli, a leading cause of urinary tract infections, and N. gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea.