Emergence of a Neisseria gonorrhoeae clone showing decreased susceptibility to cefixime in England and Wales
Author(s) -
Stephanie Chisholm,
Sarah Alexander,
L. Desouza-Thomas,
E. Maclure-Webster,
Jane Anderson,
Tom Nichols,
Catherine M Lowndes,
C A Ison,
E. Midlands,
María Laura Minassian,
L. Riddell,
V. Weston,
C J Bignell,
M. Farrington,
C A Carne,
R. Mulla,
Thamblah Balachandran,
B S Azadian,
Kenneth A McLean,
Alan McOwan,
F Boag,
D. Krahé,
M. Nathan,
Michelle Angela Graver,
M TenantFlowers,
Richard Holliman,
Peter Hay,
Annette Jepson,
L. Green,
B. MacRae,
Andrea J. Robinson,
S. G. L. Bragman,
John Russell,
J. J. Wade,
Peter Riley,
Eva Jungmann,
J. T. Magee,
K. Nathan Sankar,
Timothy Neal,
P B Carey,
A. Qamruddin,
A. Sukthankar,
John Anson,
John R. Paul,
Gillian Dean,
A. Stacey,
G. Wildman,
Marc Cubbon,
Alan Tang,
R.C. Spencer,
Paddy Horner,
M. A. Logan,
Zahir Sulaiman,
Margaret M. Williams,
A.W. Lees,
Robin Howe,
H Birley,
E. Kubriak,
Ratna Das,
M. John Gill,
Jonathan Ross,
H. D. Jones,
Jeffrey T. Gray,
Donald Dobie,
Anam Tariq,
Y. Humberside,
M. Denton,
J. T. Clarke,
P. Zadik,
G R Kinghorn
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkr332
Subject(s) - cefixime , neisseria gonorrhoeae , cephalosporin , medicine , gonorrhea , antibacterial agent , gonococcal infection , microbiology and biotechnology , neisseriaceae , antibiotics , biology , virology , sexually transmitted disease , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
The third-generation cephalosporins recommended in national guidelines are amongst the last remaining effective agents for treatment of gonorrhoea. This study characterizes gonococcal isolates with decreased cefixime susceptibility from England and Wales.
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