Antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Fukuoka City, Japan, in the early 1980s and 1997-1998: Emergence of high-level fluoroquinolone resistance [1]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 722-723

  Tanaka, Masatoshi ^a   Naito, Seiji ^a   Nakayama, Hiroshi ^b   Kobayashi, Intetsu ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nakayama Urologic Clinic   (Japan)

^c LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SITAFLOXACIN; SPARFLOXACIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; JAPAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032979089     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.3.722     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Handsfield, H. H., and W. L. Whittington. 1996. Antibiotic-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae; the calm before another storm? Ann. Intern. Med. 125:507-509.
2. Tanaka, M., T. Matsumoto, I. Kobayashi, U. Uchino, and J. Kumazawa. 1995. Emergence of in vitro resistance to fluoroquinolones in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Japan. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 39:2367-2370.