Two cases of failed ceftriaxone treatment in pharyngeal gonorrhoea verified by molecular microbiological methods

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 683-687

  Tapsall, John ^a   Read, Phillip ^b   Carmody, Christopher ^c   Bourne, Christopher ^b   Ray, Sanghamitra ^a   Limnios, Athena ^a   Sloots, Theo ^d   Whiley, David ^d  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Royal Children's Hospital and Health Service District   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; PHARYNGEAL GONORRHEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 67650488213     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.007641-0     Document Type: Article

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