Developments during the past decade have renewed hopes for solving this seemingly intractable problem. Knowledge of the meningococcal genome has led to the identification of novel antigens that have ...

A single-dose oral antibiotic from a new class of drugs was as effective as the previous standard of care at treating uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea, ...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the microbe responsible for gonorrhoea, is developing resistance to most antibiotics, which means we ...

A team of international scientists led by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered that Neisseria - a genus of bacteria that lives in the human body - is not as ...

Meningococcal meningitis is a rare but serious bacterial infection. It causes dangerous inflammation in the membranes that cover your brain and spinal cord. These are called the meninges. Any type of ...

Gonorrhea is a common sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It primarily infects the ...

If pirates were to find themselves in a situation comparable to the movement of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the game would soon be up, because they would quickly be ringed in by naval vessels. And if they ...