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. 2020 Mar;47(3):197-198.
doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001095.

Clearance of Mycoplasma genitalium Infection With Moxifloxacin in the Presence of Quinolone Resistance-Associated Mutations

Ruairi James Harwood Conway  1 , Seamus Cook  1 , Cassandra Malone  2 , Simon Bone  3 , Mohammed Osman Hassan-Ibrahim  2 , Suneeta Soni
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Clearance of Mycoplasma genitalium Infection With Moxifloxacin in the Presence of Quinolone Resistance-Associated Mutations

Ruairi James Harwood Conway et al. Sex Transm Dis. 2020 Mar.

Abstract

We present 2 cases of Mycoplasma genitalium infection that were successfully treated with moxifloxacin despite the presence of quinolone resistance-associated mutations in these strains.

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