Microbiology: Principles and Explorations 9th Edition

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Chapter 20 - Urogenital and Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Self Quiz - Page 648: 7

Answer

(b) It produces an exfoliating exotoxin

Work Step by Step

Neisseria gonorrhoeae infects or causes disease in the genitourinary tract of humans by using attachment pili, by producing an exfoliating exotoxin, and by producing a damaging endotoxin that damages the fallopian tube mucosa; this can often survive phagocytosis by neutrophils and can survive and multiply within them. It does not produce a protease that cleaves IgA.
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