CDC update on gonorrhea: Expand treatment to limit resistance

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 736-740

  Campos Outcalt, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DOXYCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; PROBENECID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIXED INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856818499     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (4)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Update to CDC's sexually transmitted disease treatment guidelines, 2006: fluoroquinolones no longer recommended for treatment of gonococcal infections. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2007;56:332-336.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cephalosporin susceptibility among Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates - United States 2000-2010. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60:873-877.
3. Workowski KA, Berman S, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2010. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2010;59(RR-12):1-110.
4. US Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for gonorrhea. Available at: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsgono.htm. Accessed September 26, 2011.