Cluster of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae with reduced susceptibility to the newer cephalosporins in Northern Greece

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 637-639

  Tzelepi, Eva ^a   Daniilidou, Maria ^b   Miriagou, Vivi ^a   Siatravani, Eirini ^a   Pavlidou, Efthimia ^b   Flemetakis, Alexandros ^c  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b State Hospital for Skin and Venereal Diseases   (Greece)

^c ANDREAS SYGROS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gonorrhoea; STD; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREECE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEROTYPE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; GREECE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 49649116194     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn236     Document Type: Letter

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