Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1989-Dec
Maltose-negative Neisseria meningitidis isolated from a case of male urethritis.
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Abstract
A maltose-negative strain of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from a male patient with urethritis was initially identified as a gonococcus on the basis of carbohydrate utilization tests. Additional investigations initiated because of atypical colony morphology and a negative superoxol reaction showed the isolate to be a meningococcus with defective maltose-phosphorylating capacity.