Posted: July 16th, 2017

The development of an effective vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae is difficult in part because:

The development of an effective vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae is difficult in part
because:
A. It expresses pili that bind antibodies and prevent opsonization
B. It is capable of antigenic variation to evade antibodies previously generated against it
C. It contains pili that express coagulase activity, thus restricting the access of antibodies to its
surface proteins
D. A very broad range of distinct strains can easily be acquired from their non-human re