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Euro Surveill. First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 43, 27 October 2011
Rapid communications
First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011
M Unemo (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, D Golparian<SUP>1</SUP>, A Stary<SUP>2</SUP>, A Eigentler<SUP>3</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Unemo M, Golparian D, Stary A, Eigentler A. First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(43):pii=19998. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19998
Date of submission: 14 October 2011 <HR>We describe the first cefixime-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain in Austria that caused treatment failure. It follows the first five cases in Europe of cefixime treatment failure, reported in Norway in 2010 and the United Kingdom in 2011. Effective treatment of gonorrhoea is crucial for public health control and, at present, requires substantially enhanced awareness, more frequent test-of-cure, interaction with experts after therapeutic failure, tracing and therapy of contacts, and surveillance of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance and treatment failures worldwide.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 43, 27 October 2011
Rapid communications
First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011
M Unemo (
- Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, ?rebro University Hospital, ?rebro, Sweden
- Outpatients Centre for Diagnosis of Infectious Venero-Dermatological Diseases, Vienna, Austria
- Microbiological Laboratory Doz. Moest, Innsbruck, Austria
Citation style for this article: Unemo M, Golparian D, Stary A, Eigentler A. First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(43):pii=19998. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19998
Date of submission: 14 October 2011 <HR>We describe the first cefixime-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain in Austria that caused treatment failure. It follows the first five cases in Europe of cefixime treatment failure, reported in Norway in 2010 and the United Kingdom in 2011. Effective treatment of gonorrhoea is crucial for public health control and, at present, requires substantially enhanced awareness, more frequent test-of-cure, interaction with experts after therapeutic failure, tracing and therapy of contacts, and surveillance of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance and treatment failures worldwide.