Selection for expression of the gonococcal hemoglobin receptor during menses

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1621-1623

  Anderson, James E ^a   Leone, Peter A ^a,d   Miller, William C ^a,c   Chen, Ching ju ^a   Hobbs, Marcia M ^a,b   Sparling, P Frederick ^a,b  

^a Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^b Departments of Microbiology and Immunology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Departments of Wake County Health Department Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GONOCOCCAL HEMOGLOBIN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 0035892806     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324564     Document Type: Article

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