Gonorrhoea treatment failures to cefixime and azithromycin in England, 2010.

نویسندگان

  • C A Ison
  • J Hussey
  • K N Sankar
  • J Evans
  • S Alexander
چکیده

Successful treatment of gonorrhoea is the mainstay of public health control. Cefixime and ceftriaxone, highly active third generation cephalosporins, are today the recommended first-line agents in most countries and azithromycin is a second-line agent. However, there is increasing evidence of decreasing susceptibility and emergence of therapeutic failures. In this report two cases of clinical failure to cefixime are described, one of which additionally shows failure to azithromycin and selection of a less susceptible strain during treatment.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

دوره 16 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011