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Review
. 1993 Jan;6(1):22-33.
doi: 10.1128/CMR.6.1.22.

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and implications for epidemiology and therapy

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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and implications for epidemiology and therapy

T Fekete. Clin Microbiol Rev. 1993 Jan.

Abstract

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been under development since the early days of antimicrobial agents. However, it is rarely applied to clinical isolates today. The history of the various in vitro tests to determine the susceptibility of N. gonorrhoeae to antibiotics is rich with evidence that these results predict response to therapy for almost all agents tested. Further, AST is a useful and important aspect of strain characterization and disease epidemiology in conjunction with the more specific but laborious techniques of auxotyping, serotyping, and plasmid analysis. Current technology has overcome many of the objections to AST for N. gonorrhoeae with standardization of test media and the development of an accurate disk diffusion AST method that is suited to most clinical laboratories regardless of volume or level of technical expertise. Ironically, the very low level of resistance to the current primary treatment strategy in the United States, ceftriaxone or another potent cephalosporin, makes the use of AST somewhat superfluous.

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