Polyamines can increase resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to mediators of the innate human host defense.

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Published in Infect Immun on May 03, 2010

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Maira Goytia1, William M Shafer

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

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