Five laboratories co-operated in the first phase, 3 consisting of a comparison of the efficiency of the fluorescent-antibody technics and conventional culture in identification of the gonococcus.

The bacteria is also known as gonococcus. Gonococcus is present in the penis and vaginal fluids and discharge of an infected person. The bacteria can spread from person to person via these fluids.

Indeed, although the woman displayed no outward signs of gonorrhea, her lab test came back positive; she carried the gonococcus microbe in her throat, a common reservoir. After a second visit ...

In 1879 Neisser discovered the gonococcus or Neisseria gonorrhoeae and it was soon proven to be the causative agent of gonorrhoea. He demonstrated its presence consistently in patients with symptoms.

From the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Boston City Hospital. Presented before the joint meeting of the New England, New York and Philadelphia Branch Societies of the American Urological ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan., 1923), pp. 1-7 (7 pages) For isolation of the gonococcus we found the use of a 1.6% agar of $P_H$ 7.6 to ...

A 52-year-old Caucasian male presented with a 1-week history of a painful red right eye and lid swelling. He had been treated at a walk-in primary care facility with oral flucloxacillin and ...

the gonococcus and meningococcus, for instance, which grow with difficulty or not at all in ordinary mediums. Culture mediums containing low percentages of agar, since they offer at the same time ...

"We have been actively monitoring the effectiveness of antibiotics against gonococcus (gonorrhoea) in Australia and it's very clearly a concerning and rising issue," Professor Jones said.