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Clusters of circulating Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains and association with antimicrobial resistance in Shanghai.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Mar 2008
Liao Mingmin, Bell Kelli, Gu Wei-Ming, Yang Yang, Eng Nelson F, Fu Wenkai, Wu Lei, Zhang Chu-Guang, Chen Yue, Jolly Ann M, Dillon Jo-Anne R
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OBJECTIVES: (i) To distinguish Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Shanghai by porB typing; (ii) to ascertain the congruence of porB DNA sequence typing with cases linked epidemiologically; (iii) to determine the association of specific PorB mutations with antimicrobial resistance to penicillin or tetracycline. METHODS: porB DNA sequences of 174 N. gonorrhoeae isolates, collected from 143 male patients and 31...
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