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Increasing Resistance to Azithromycin in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Eastern Chinese Cities: Resistance Mechanisms and Genetic Diversity among Isolates from Nanjing.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 May 2018
Wan Chuan, Li Yang, Le Wen-Jing, Liu Yu-Rong, Li Sai, Wang Bao-Xi, Rice Peter A, Su Xiao-Hong
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Azithromycin resistance (AZM-R) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is emerging as a clinical and public health challenge. We determined molecular characteristics of recent AZM-R Nanjing gonococcal isolates and tracked the emergence of AZM-R isolates in eastern Chinese cities in recent years. A total of 384 N. gonorrhoeae isolates from Nanjing collected from 2013 to 2014 were tested for susceptibility to AZM and six...
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