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Molecular Diagnostics for Gonorrhoea: Implications for Antimicrobial Resistance and the Threat of Untreatable Gonorrhoea
4 Feb 2014
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Antimicrobial resistance and overuse of antimicrobials are serious threats to the treatment of gonorrhoea.N Neisseria gonorrhoeae susceptibility to extended spectrum cephalosporins is decreasing and treatment failures are spreading, but no new drug class is licensed to replace them for immediate treatment.N Nucleic acid amplification tests are increasingly used to diagnose gonorrhoea but current commercially...
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