First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 43, 2011, Pages

  Unemo, M ^a   Golparian, D ^a   Stary, A ^b   Eigentler, A ^c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Outpatients' Centre for Diagnosis of Infectious Venero Dermatological Diseases   (Austria)

^c Microbiological Laboratory Doz Moest   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAL URETHRITIS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; UNSAFE SEX; URINALYSIS;

EID: 80455144975     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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