Importance of drug resistance in gonococci: from mechanisms to monitoring
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (1), 35-40
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001432-199902000-00007
Abstract
Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates continue to develop an impressive arsenal of resistance mechanisms to antimicrobial agents, including resistance to some of the antibiotics presently recommended for the treatment of gonococcal infections.Keywords
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