Prescott’s Microbiology

Each year over 100 million people around the world become
infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes
gonorrhea. This troubling statistic is made even more disturbing by the
increasing resistance of the bacterium to the antibiotics used to treat
the disease. In men, infection is usually readily detected, but for
women, infection is often asymptomatic and can lead to serious
consequences such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and sterility