Seminal plasma initiates a Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmission state

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Anderson, Mark T ^a   Dewenter, Lena ^b   Maier, Berenike ^b   Steven Seifert, H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; LACTOFERRIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL MOTILITY; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; TWITCHING MOTILITY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SEMEN;

EID: 84899753405     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01004-13     Document Type: Article

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