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Case Reports
. 2006 Oct;44(10):3833-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01041-06.

Disseminated gonococcal infection in an immunocompetent patient caused by an imported Neisseria gonorrhoeae multidrug-resistant strain

Ivano Dal Conte  1 , Stefania Starnino, Giovanni Di Perri, Paola Stefanelli
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Disseminated gonococcal infection in an immunocompetent patient caused by an imported Neisseria gonorrhoeae multidrug-resistant strain

Ivano Dal Conte et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Oct.

Abstract

We herein report the microbiological features of a Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain isolated from an immunocompetent patient with disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI). The strain expressed the IA/IB serovar; was resistant to penicillin, tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin; and had presumably been acquired in Southeast Asia. To date, this is the first case reported in our country of DGI due to an imported multidrug-resistant strain.

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