Failure of Azithromycin 2.0 g in the Treatment of Gonococcal Urethritis Caused by High-Level Resistance in California

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• Alternative Title:
  Sex Transm Dis
• Personal Author:
  Gose, Severin O. ; Soge, Olusegun O. ; Beebe, James L. ; Nguyen, Duylinh ; Stoltey, Juliet E. ; Bauer, Heidi M.
• Description:
  We report a treatment failure to azithromycin 2.0 g caused by a urethral Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate with high-level azithromycin resistance in California. This report describes the epidemiological case investigation and phenotypic and genetic characterization of the treatment failure isolate.
• Subjects:
  Adult Anti-Bacterial Agents Article Azithromycin Ceftriaxone Contact Tracing Drug Resistance, Bacterial Female Gonorrhea Humans Male Microbial Sensitivity Tests Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Population Surveillance Treatment Failure Urethritis

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• Source:
  Sex Transm Dis. 42(5):279-280.
• Pubmed ID:
  25868141
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5972538
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  H25 PS001411/PS/NCHHSTP CDC HHS/United States ; T32 AI007641/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:afc0e7b3b6bb59fb4d7e35faf71631678246d544f57b93cebfe1b2a8de239f7d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/55375/cdc_55375_DS1.pdf
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