Neisseria gonorrhea
Luis Solano
BIOL 451
Dr. Vance McCracken
April 27, 2012
Neisseria gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhea, or Gonorrhea, is a sexually transmitted disease that is considered the second most dominant in the world. This disease has very interesting components that includes a location of where it likes to “live” in the human host, distinct symptoms, virulence factors that help defend against the host immune system, and how it can survive from host to host. All of these factors go into what is necessary to thrive and spread its life, however by understanding how this bacteria functions, the human population has the ability to learn from it and treat and protect from other encounters and threats from this organism. This will give a glimpse to what this organism is all about and how to combat it in the future. Gonorrhea is gonococci that is transmitted sexually and is only able to live within a human host. It is not able to cause infection in other animals. In order to survive, it requires close contact between human hosts for it to be able to thrive. It is apparent in both males and females, however the probabilities of contracting the disease differs for both. After one sexual encounter, a female’s chances of contracting the infection is about 50% with an infected man, whereas a male’s chances of contracting it is at about 20% (Goering). Besides sexual transmission, gonorrhea can be transmitted from mother to child, congenital gonorrhea, if the mother has contracted the disease prior to giving birth. This infection can be asymptomatic, however hold many signs that can appear on the host after infection. Signs and symptoms can be shown two to seven days after infection and can vary from person to person and gender to gender (Goering). For males, it can include urethral discharge and pain from passing urine, and for females, vaginal discharge. A majority of the women that contract this disease show no signs of infection and may continue to spread it until someone
BIOL 451
Dr. Vance McCracken
April 27, 2012
Neisseria gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhea, or Gonorrhea, is a sexually transmitted disease that is considered the second most dominant in the world. This disease has very interesting components that includes a location of where it likes to “live” in the human host, distinct symptoms, virulence factors that help defend against the host immune system, and how it can survive from host to host. All of these factors go into what is necessary to thrive and spread its life, however by understanding how this bacteria functions, the human population has the ability to learn from it and treat and protect from other encounters and threats from this organism. This will give a glimpse to what this organism is all about and how to combat it in the future. Gonorrhea is gonococci that is transmitted sexually and is only able to live within a human host. It is not able to cause infection in other animals. In order to survive, it requires close contact between human hosts for it to be able to thrive. It is apparent in both males and females, however the probabilities of contracting the disease differs for both. After one sexual encounter, a female’s chances of contracting the infection is about 50% with an infected man, whereas a male’s chances of contracting it is at about 20% (Goering). Besides sexual transmission, gonorrhea can be transmitted from mother to child, congenital gonorrhea, if the mother has contracted the disease prior to giving birth. This infection can be asymptomatic, however hold many signs that can appear on the host after infection. Signs and symptoms can be shown two to seven days after infection and can vary from person to person and gender to gender (Goering). For males, it can include urethral discharge and pain from passing urine, and for females, vaginal discharge. A majority of the women that contract this disease show no signs of infection and may continue to spread it until someone
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