Evaluating spatially adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to reduce the incidence of gonococcal infection and increase the effective lifespan of antibiotics.
In the absence of point-of-care gonorrhea diagnostics that report antibiotic susceptibility, gonorrhea treatment is empiric and determined by standardized guidelines. These guidelines are informed by estimates of resistance prevalence from national surveillance systems. We examined whether guideline...
Main Authors: | Reza Yaesoubi, Ted Cohen, Katherine Hsu, Thomas L Gift, Sancta B St Cyr, Joshua A Salomon, Yonatan H Grad |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009842 |
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