1. Ceftriaxone-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Canada, 2017
- Author
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Walter Demczuk, Jean Longtin, Marie-Claude Beaudoin, Irene Martin, Annie-Claude Labbé, Lucie Deshaies, Brigitte Lefebvre, and Stéphanie Michaud
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Letter ,Epidemiology ,Gonorrhea ,lcsh:Medicine ,medicine.disease_cause ,0302 clinical medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,bacteria ,Travel ,Ceftriaxone ,Dispatch ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Infectious Diseases ,Female ,medicine.drug ,Microbiology (medical) ,Canada ,Asia ,sexually transmitted diseases ,Genomic data ,030106 microbiology ,Antimicrobial susceptibility ,ceftriaxone resistance ,Microbial Sensitivity Tests ,Biology ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,Antibiotic resistance ,Drug Resistance, Bacterial ,medicine ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,antimicrobial resistance ,Allele ,Ceftriaxone-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Canada, 2017 ,Letters to the Editor ,Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project ,sexually transmitted infections ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,penA-60 ,mosaic penA allele ,antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Neisseria gonorrhoeae ,030104 developmental biology ,North America ,business ,ceftriaxone-resistant ,Bacteria - Abstract
We identified a ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate in a patient in Canada. This isolate carried the penA-60 allele, which differs substantially from its closest relative, mosaic penA XXVII (80% nucleotide identity). Epidemiologic and genomic data suggest spread from Asia. Antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance helps prevent spread of highly resistant N. gonorrhoeae strains.
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- 2017