Prediction of antibiotic resistance using Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen sequence typing

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-284

  Palmer, H M ^a   Young, H ^a   Graham, C ^b   Dave, J ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GONORRHEA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 49149104872     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2008.029694     Document Type: Article

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