Susan Isbey

Journal Article Genitourin Med · October 1997 OBJECTIVE: To determine the number of Neisseria gonorrhoeae organisms in urine and semen in men with gonococcal urethritis, and to compare selected phenotypic characteristics of organisms harvested from the urethra and semen. DESIGN: Samples from two group ... Full text Link to item Cite

Time required for elimination of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the urogenital tract in men with symptomatic urethritis: comparison of oral and intramuscular single-dose therapy.

Journal Article Sex Transm Dis · 1995 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including gonorrhea, is affected by the duration of infection. Oral antibiotic therapy for gonococcal infection has been shown to be as effective as conventional intramuscular i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multiple gonococcal opacity proteins are expressed during experimental urethral infection in the male.

Journal Article J Exp Med · March 1, 1994 The opacity (Opa) proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are a family of outer membrane proteins demonstrating phase and antigenic variation. N. gonorrhoeae strain FA0190 has 11 opa loci that encode at least 8 antigenically distinct Opa proteins. To determine i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Human experimentation with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: rationale, methods, and implications for the biology of infection and vaccine development.

Journal Article J Infect Dis · March 1994 Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection is limited to the human host. Experimental urethral infection in male volunteers was used to study different aspects of the infection. Urethral installation of a variety of gonococcal variants (10(4)-10(6)) led to infection ... Full text Link to item Cite

Central acoustic tract in an echolocating bat: an extralemniscal auditory pathway to the thalamus.

Journal Article J Comp Neurol · September 8, 1989 To determine the sources and targets of auditory pathways that bypass the inferior colliculus in the mustache bat, we injected WGA-HRP in the medial geniculate body and related auditory nuclei of the thalamus as well as in the lower brainstem. We used elec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Auditory pathways to the frontal cortex of the mustache bat, Pteronotus parnellii.

Journal Article Science · May 15, 1987 In primates, certain areas of the frontal cortex play a role in guiding movements toward visual or auditory objects in space. The projections from auditory centers to the frontal cortex of the bat Pteronotus parnellii were examined because echolocating bat ... Full text Link to item Cite