Point-of-care antibiotic susceptibility testing for gonorrhoea: Improving therapeutic options and sparing the use of cephalosporins

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 445-446

  Sadiq, S T ^a   Dave, J ^b   Butcher, P D ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; GENE MUTATION; GONORRHEA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78449236980     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.044230     Document Type: Article

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