Detailed characterization of the first high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae cases in Ireland

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2411-2413

  Lynagh, Yvonne ^a   Mac Aogáin, Micheál ^b   Walsh, Anne ^a   Rogers, Thomas R ^b   Unemo, Magnus ^c   Crowley, Brendan ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

23S rRNA; Gonorrhoea; Macrolide resistance; NG MAST

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CARBOHYDRATE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 23S; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; IRELAND; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROMOTER REGION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRITIS; YOUNG ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939533114     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv106     Document Type: Letter

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