Evidence for Clonally Associated Increasing Rates of Azithromycin Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Azithromycin is one of the drugs used in the combined therapy for syndromic treatment of gonorrhoea in many countries, including Brazil. Our research group, which receives isolates from clinical laboratories since 2006, has detected, after 2016, a tendency of rising rates of azithromycin resistance,...

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Main Authors: Késia T. Barros dos Santos, Larissa B. Skaf, Livia H. Justo-da-Silva, Raphael C. Medeiros, Ronaldo da S. Francisco Junior, Maria Cristina A. Caniné, Sergio E. L. Fracalanzza, Raquel R. Bonelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3180580