Hold It Right There! Gonococci Preserve Epithelium Integrity during Intimate Adherence

Exfoliation is used as a mechanism to remove bacterially infected cells from the body. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Muenzner and Hauck, 2020Muenzner P. Hauck C.R. Neisseria gonorrhoeae blocks epithelial exfoliation by nitric-oxide-mediated metabolic cross talk to promote colonization in mice..Cell Host Microbe. 2020; 27 (this issue): 793-808Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (9) Google Scholar find that Neisseria gonorrhoeae blocks...