If a male is infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, what would be the results of a Gram stain of purulent urethral discharge reveal?

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram-negative diplococcus, which means it would appear as pairs of purple staining bacteria under a microscope after a Gram stain. The purulent urethral discharge is the body's response to the infection, consisting of white blood cells and other inflammatory cells, which would also show up under the microscope as purple-staining cells. Therefore, the Gram stain of the discharge from an infected male would reveal many polymorphonuclear white blood cells (indicating an inflammatory response), some with gram-negative intracellular diplococci (indicating N. gonorrhoeae inside the white blood cells), and gram-negative diplococci (indicating N. gonorrhoeae outside the white blood cells).

If a Male Is Infected with Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, What Would