Resistance to azithromycin of neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from 2 cities in China

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 764-768

  Yuan, Liu Feng ^a   Yin, Yue Ping ^a   Dai, Xiu Qin ^a   Pearline, Rachel V ^b   Xiang, Zhi ^a   Unemo, Magnus ^c   Chen, Xiang Sheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGAR DILUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHINA; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79961025668     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318219cdb5     Document Type: Article

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