The ticking time bomb: Escalating antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a public health disaster in waiting

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2059-2061

  Whiley, David M ^a,b   Goire, Namraj ^a,b   Lahra, Monica M ^c   Donovan, Basil ^d,e   Limnios, Athena E ^c   Nissen, Michael D ^a,b,f   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b,f  

^a Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f Central Queensland Pathology Laboratory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Azithromycin; Ceftriaxone; Dual therapy; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; PROBENECID; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ERADICATION THERAPY; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CEPHALOSPORINS; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84865377802     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks188     Document Type: Article

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