Polyamines can increase resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to mediators of the innate human host defense

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3187-3195

  Goytia, Maira ^a   Shafer, William M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CADAVERINE; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; CIPROFLOXACIN; COMPLEMENT; ORNITHINE; PENICILLIN G; PERMEASE; POLYAMINE; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN POTH; PROTEIN POTI; PUTRESCINE; SPECTINOMYCIN; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BIOGENIC POLYAMINES; CADAVERINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

EID: 77953933839     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01301-09     Document Type: Article

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