Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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title: Neisseria gonorrhoeae
text: Neisseria gonorrhoeae, also known as gonococcus (singular) or gonococci (plural), is a species of Gram-negative diplococci bacteria isolated by Albert Neisser in 1879. It causes the sexually transmitted genitourinary infection gonorrhea as well as other forms of gonococcal disease including disseminated gonococcemia, septic arthritis, and gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. It is oxidase positive and aerobic, and it survives phagocytosis and grows inside neutrophils. Culturing it requires carbon d
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description: Species of bacterium
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neisseria_gonorrhoeae
date created: 2002-07-13T11:57:13Z
date modified: 2024-09-13T03:17:18Z
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