Lactate acquisition promotes successful colonization of the murine genital tract by Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1318-1324

  Exley, Rachel M ^a   Wu, Hong ^b   Shaw, Jonathan ^c   Schneider, Muriel C ^a   Smith, Harry ^d   Jerse, Ann E ^b   Tang, Christoph M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLUCOSE; LACTATE PERMEASE; LACTIC ACID; PERMEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; LCTP GENE; MOUSE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; LACTIC ACID; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; VAGINA;

EID: 33847761136     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01530-06     Document Type: Article

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