We have studied 386 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in our laboratory from July 1977 to October 1978, with the Catlin's auxotyping method. The distribution of the four main auxotypes, i. e. (+), (PRO-), (ARG-), (ARG-, HYX-, URA-), is different from those reported by others (in U. S. A. and Sweden). In Strasbourg, the auxotype (+) is prevalent. We have noticed some differences among classes of population. For example (ARG-) and (ARG-, HYX-, URA-) are scarcely isolated from prostitutes and we have found less (ARG-) strains in women than in men. The determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration of 6 antibiotics has shown there was no differences between the auxotypes except for the (ARG-, HYX-, URA-) strains which are more susceptible to all the antibiotics, but spectinomycin. Since August 1978, we have also noticed an increasing of the resistance which is mainly due to (PRO-) strains.
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Food Chem
December 2024
School of Food Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Food Processing & Safety Control, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China. Electronic address:
Sex Transm Dis
March 1988
Department of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington 40532.
Some human urine is bactericidal for the F-62 strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Gonococci of three auxotypes (Pro-; Arg-, Hyx-, Ura-; and Pro-, Arg-. (Orn*), Ura-) were tested by in-vitro exposure to 31 samples of urine from 14 men.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe possible inhibition of Neisseria gonorrhoeae on modified Thayer-Martin (VCNT) medium was investigated by inoculation of multiple media with specimens from 3,490 patients. N. gonorrhoeae was recovered from 461 patients, and in 24 cases (5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUrethral gonorrhea is typified by the presence of large numbers of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, which are presumably attracted to the urethra by an as yet uncharacterized chemotaxin. Culture supernatants from three different auxotypes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, one requiring arginine, hypoxanthine, and uracil (Arg-,Hyx-,Ura-), one requiring proline, arginine (not satisfied by ornithine), and uracil (Pro-,Arg-[Orn*],Ura-), and one requiring proline (Pro-), were tested for their chemotactic activity against leukocytes from men of two racial groups, white and black. These auxotypes were chosen because the Pro- auxotype is isolated more frequently from black patients, and the Arg-,Hyx-,Ura- and the Pro-,Arg-(Orn*),Ura- auxotypes are isolated more frequently from white patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from 150 patients attending a venereal disease clinic were examined for their susceptibility to four antibiotics (norfloxacin, cefotaxime, cefuroxime, and erythromycin) by a plate-dilution method. The isolates were also characterized by gonococcal auxotyping. The most frequent auxotypes were nonrequiring, 50%; Pro-, 16.
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