Neisseria gonorrhoeae host adaptation and pathogenesis

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 226 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.169 Authors: Sarah Jane Quillin & H Steven Seifert The host-adapted human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the causative agent of gonorrhoea. Consistent with its proposed evolution from an ancestral commensal bacterium, N. gonorrhoeae has retained features that are common in commensals, but it has also developed unique features that are crucial to
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