Gonorrhea remains one of the more common sexually transmitted infections. In North America, the number of reported cases has generally risen for over ten years, with interruptions in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by returns to rising rates of infection. Under the selective pressure of antimicrobial treatment, antimicrobial resistance has risen, which has led to limited options for treatment
Today, we will be discussing antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae, including these questions:
• How accurate is gradient diffusion susceptibility testing when compared to agar-dilution results?
• Should we use analysis of whole genome sequencing results or agar dilution phenotypic results as the gold-standard for antibiotic susceptibility testing of N. gonorrhoeae?
• What is the utility of beta-lactamase testing for predicting penicillin susceptibility results in N. gonorrhoeae?
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WHO Critical Review of the Antibacterial Pipeline (AAC ed.)
Testing for COVID-19 During the Age of Omicron (JCM ed.)
Best Clinical Microbiology Papers of 2021 (JCM ed.)
Treatment of Acinetobacter spp. Infections (AAC ed.)
SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing for Clinical Care and Infection Control (JCM ed.)
Candida auris at the Intersection of the COVID-19 Pandemic (AAC ed.)
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Testing for COVID-19 Infectivity (JCM ed.)
Treatment of VRE Infections (AAC ed.)
Advances in Serologic Testing for COVID-19 (JCM ed.)
Innovative Clinical Trials for COVID-19 (AAC ed.)
Mythbusting in Susceptibility Testing (JCM ed.)
Antimalarial Drug-Resistance (AAC ed.)
Staphylococcus argenteus: another coagulase positive Staphylococcus (JCM ed.)
β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (AAC ed.)
Reconciling Genotypic and Phenotypic Susceptibility Tests (JCM ed.)
Gaps in Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases (JCM ed.)
Pandemic Built Environment (mSystems ed.)
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