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Large Cluster of Neisseria meningitidis Urethritis in Columbus, Ohio, 2015

2017; Oxford University Press; Volume: 65; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/cid/cix215

1537-6591

José A. Bazan, Abigail Norris Turner, Robert D. Kirkcaldy, Adam C. Retchless, Cécilia B. Kretz, Elizabeth C. Briere, Yih‐Ling Tzeng, David S. Stephens, Courtney Maierhofer, Carlos del Rı́o, A. Jeanine Abrams, David L. Trees, Melissa Ervin, Denisse B. Licon, Karen S. Fields, Mysheika Williams Roberts, Amanda Dennison, Xin Wang,

Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment

Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) is a Gram-negative diplococcus that normally colonizes the nasopharynx and rarely infects the urogenital tract. On Gram stain of urethral exudates, Nm can be misidentified as the more common sexually transmitted pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae.