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Penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae produce a plasmid-coded β-lactamase, which degrades penicillin. What are the structural and metabolic...

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Penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeaeproduce a plasmid-coded β-lactamase, which degradespenicillin.

What are the structural and metabolic changes that theymay render this organism resistant to other antimicrobial drugs.(10)

2.2 Discuss the difficulties faced by the researchers indeveloping an effective vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae.(5)

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First of all Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram negative diplococcus which have the ability to live on or create colonies on the epithelial layer of our skin It is a sexually transmitted disease STD and can affects urethra cervix in females pharynx rectum and can cause conjuctivities as well As we all know every foreign material which enters our body is identified by our immune system and is characterized as friendly or nonfriendly The ones which are not friendly are tagged and antibodies are produced against them and made sure that they are destroyed and thrownout of our body How our body finds out if the material is friendly or nonfriendly is a whole new topic which I will not discuss here    See Answer
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