Sentences with phrase «gonorrhoeae bacteria»

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.

Macrophages are the cells within the immune system that ordinarily kill foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses, so without them the gonorrhoea bacteria can flourish.

Not exact matches

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.

The bacteria behind gonorrhoea readily acquire genes for resisting drugs and so from 2012, UK patients were given two antibiotics at once — azithromycin pills plus a ceftriaxone injection — so if bacteria acquired resistance to one, they would be killed by the other.

Researchers are trying to find out if a vaccine against meningitis B, caused by related bacteria, might cause some cross-immunity to gonorrhoea.

The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae controls mechanical interactions among cells with extensions called pili.

«Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a difficult bacteria to work with, and it's very diverse,» Sikora said.

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.

Gonorrhea, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, infects an estimated 78 million people every year.

Gonorrhoea is caused by bacteria which can rapidly develop resistance to all known antibiotics — commonly called «superbugs».

The gonorrhea bacteria, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is a pathogen specific to humans and no other animals.

A medical illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea.

It also kills bacteria that cause ulcers, throat infections, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and gonorrhoea, etc..

Chlamydia trachomatis is inactivated by lauric acid, capric acid, and monocaprin (Bergsson et al 1998), and hydrogels containing monocaprin are potent in vitro inactivators of sexually transmitted viruses such as HSV - 2 and HIV - 1 and bacteria such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Thormar 1999).

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

I had a microbiology professor a few years back, and as a Neisseria gonorrhoeae researcher, he always had stories to tell about gonorrhea, the disease caused by the bacteria he studied.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a bacteria species whose coffee - bean - shaped members thrive in mucosal cells of the human body.

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.

This month's installment will focus on gonorrhea, colloquially known as «the clap,» a common sexually transmitted disease caused by sneaky bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a species of tricky bacteria that cause gonorrhea, which can infect the mouth, throat, rectum, urethra, cervix, and even eyes.

In the younger age group, epididymitis is usually caused by sexually transmitted bacteria, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Escherichia coli, which have spread from the urethra to the testicles.