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Topics Covered
- Gram negative
- Diplococcus
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Fastidious organism
- VCAT medium
- Septicemia
- Virulence factors
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Fouch, S. (2025, August 31). Neisseria gonorrhoeae [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved September 3, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/YBRU4359.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on August 31, 2025
Financial Disclosures
- Dr. Sarah Fouch has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.
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0:00
Hello, everyone. My name
is Dr. Sarah Fouch,
and welcome to this
short recording,
where we will be considering
Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
As we work through
this recording,
we will think about the
clinical conditions
associated with this organism,
and also the virulence
factors that it can produce
to make it a
successful pathogen.
0:25
When we think about
Neisseria gonorrhoeae,
these are aerobic organisms.
They are gram-negative,
and they normally appear
in cocci in pairs.
These are what we
call diplococci.
They sit together.
Now they need higher
concentrations of CO_2 to survive,
and they are what we
call capnophilic.
They are non-motile, and
they can't form spores.
They are not secreted
into the environment
and they can't survive
for long periods of time.
1:03
Now, when we think about
Neisseria gonorrhoeae,
we've known about this organism
for a long period of time.
Gonor means seed, and
rhoia means flow.
If we think about the
way gonorrhoeae is
transmitted via sexual contact,
actually, that name
is perfect in a way.
Now, back in 1879,
clinicians started to see
purulent discharges that had
these organisms within them.
The causal relationship
between these organisms,
and also the way they are
transmitted, was proven in 1885.