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Point-of-Care Amenable Detection of Mycoplasma genitalium and Its Antibiotic Resistance Mutations.
ACS sensors - 28 Apr 2023
Chen Fan-En, Wang Jonathan, Nambiar Anju Haridas, Hardick Justin, Melendez Johan, Trick Alexander Y, Wang Tza-Huei
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is an emerging sexually transmitted bacterium. Due to its fastidious and slow-growing nature, MG is difficult to detect through culture-based diagnostics. Like Neisseria gonorrheae, another bacterial pathogen linked to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), MG has developed resistance to macrolide and fluoroquinolone antibiotics used to treat STIs. The ability to detect MG and identify...
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