Associations between antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in European Union/European Economic Area and patients’ gender, sexual orientation and anatomical site of infection, 2009–2016

• Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases
• Main Author: on behalf of The Euro-GASP Network
• Other Authors: Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Laboratory Services, Diagnostics and Blood Bank, Other departments
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Lekandi; Evrópa; Sýklalyfjaónæmi; Antimicrobial resistance; Azithromycin; Ceftriaxone; Europe; European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP); Gonorrhoea; Surveillance; Ceftriaxone/therapeutic use; Neisseria gonorrhoeae/drug effects; Heterosexuality; Humans; Drug Resistance; Bacterial; Male; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Azithromycin/therapeutic use; Homosexuality; Sexual and Gender Minorities; Female; Cefixime/therapeutic use; Sexual Behavior; Ciprofloxacin/therapeutic use; European Union; Sex Factors; Gonorrhea/drug therapy; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use; Infectious Diseases; Norway; Moreno; Inga; Klaus; Ramos; Diaz; Steen; Monique; Visser; Linde; Parodi; Nikiforova; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2955; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05931-0

Funding Information: We would like to thank the members of the European STI network for their active participation in Euro-GASP: Austria: Claudia Eder, Sonja Pleininger, Alexander Indra, Steliana Huhlescu; Belgium: Irith De Baetselier, Wim Vanden Berghe; Croatia: Bla?enka Hunjak, Tatjana Nemeth Bla?i?; Cyprus: Panayiota Maikanti-Charalambous, Despo Pieridou; Czech Republic: Hana Z?kouck?, Helena ?emli?kov?; Denmark: Steen Hoffmann, Lasse Jessen Schwartz; Estonia: Rita Peetso, Jevgenia Epstein, Jelena Viktorova; France: Ndeindo Ndeikoundam, Beatrice Bercot, C?cile B?b?ar, Florence Lot; Germany: Susanne Buder, Klaus Jansen; Greece: Vivi Miriagou, Georgios Rigakos, Vasilios Raftopoulos; Hungary: Eszter Balla, M?ria Dud?s; Iceland: Lena R?s ?smundsd?ttir, Gu?r?n Sigmundsd?ttir, Gu?r?n Svanborg Hauksd?ttir, Thorolfur Gudnason; Ireland: Aoife Colgan, Brendan Crowley, Sin?ad Saab; Italy: Paola Stefanelli, Anna Carannante, Patrizia Parodi; Latvia: Gatis Pakarna, Raina Nikiforova, Antra Bormane, Elina Dimina; Luxembourg: Monique Perrin, Tamir Abdelrahman, Jo?l Mossong, Jean-Claude Schmit, Friedrich M?hlschlegel; Malta: Christopher Barbara, Francesca Mifsud; the Netherlands: Alje Van Dam, Birgit Van Benthem, Maartje Visser, Ineke Linde; Norway: Hilde Kl?vstad, Dominique Caugant; Poland: Beata M?ynarczyk-Bonikowska; Portugal: Jacinta Azevedo, Maria-Jos? Borrego, Marina Lurdes Ramos Nascimento; Slovak Republic: Peter Pavlik; Slovenia: Irena Klavs, Andreja Murnik, Samo Jeverica, Sandra Kosmac, Tanja Kustec; Spain: Julio V?zquez Moreno, Asuncion Diaz, Raquel Abad; Sweden: Inga Velicko, Magnus Unemo; United Kingdom: Gwenda Hughes, Jill Shepherd, Lynsey Patterson. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s). BACKGROUND: The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, nationally and internationally, is a serious threat to the management and control of gonorrhoea. Limited and conflicting data regarding the epidemiological drivers of gonococcal AMR internationally have been published. We ...