Future treatment of gonorrhea--novel emerging drugs are essential and in progress?

Affiliations

¹ a 1 Örebro University, Örebro, National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health , Örebro, Sweden +46 19 602 2038 ; +46 19 127 416 ; magnus.unemo@orebroll.se.

Editorial

Magnus Unemo et al. Expert Opin Emerg Drugs. 2015 Sep.

. 2015 Sep;20(3):357-60.

doi: 10.1517/14728214.2015.1039981. Epub 2015 Jul 3.

¹ a 1 Örebro University, Örebro, National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health , Örebro, Sweden +46 19 602 2038 ; +46 19 127 416 ; magnus.unemo@orebroll.se.

No abstract available

Keywords: Neisseria gonorrhoeae; gonorrhoea; resistance; treatment.

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