Optimizing Treatment of Antimicrobial-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Optimizing Treatment of Antimicrobial-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae

The increasing prevalence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae has required replacing inexpensive oral ciprofloxacin treatment with more expensive injectable ceftriaxone. Further, monitoring antimicrobial resistance requires culture testing, but nonculture gonorrhea tests are rapidly rep...

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Main Authors: Kakoli Roy, Susan A. Wang, Martin I. Meltzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-08-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Keywords: Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Antimicrobial resistance
Cost-effectiveness analysis
United States
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/8/05-0157_article

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