Pelvic infection tied to bacterial gene

From Los Angeles, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology

When it infects the cervix or urethra, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium behind gonorrhea, fails to produce symptoms in many women. That’s not necessarily good. Women with such silent infections never get treatment, permitting N. gonorrhoeae to spread to the fallopian tubes and elsewhere in the upper genital tract.