Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance and molecular epidemiological characteristics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in 2009 in Belarus

APMIS

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 537-542

  Glazkova, Slavyana ^a   Golparian, Daniel ^b   Titov, Leonid ^a   Pankratova, Nataliya ^a   Suhabokava, Nataliya ^c   Shimanskaya, Irina ^c   Domeika, Marius ^d   Unemo, Magnus ^b  

^a And Practical Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology ^*  (Belarus)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Minsk City Oncological Dispensary   (Belarus)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Belarus; Eastern Europe; Epidemiology; N. gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence typing; Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BELARUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EASTERN EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORINS; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960274508     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2011.02770.x     Document Type: Article

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