Antimicrobial-resistant sexually transmitted infections: Gonorrhoea and Mycoplasma genitalium

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 139-152

  Unemo, Magnus ^a   Jensen, Jorgen S ^b  

^a Örebro University   (Sweden)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; JOSAMYCIN; LEFAMULIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SOLITHROMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; ZOLIFLODACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MIC50; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 85009212751     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2016.268     Document Type: Review

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