Significant increase in azithromycin “resistance” and susceptibility to ceftriaxone and cefixime in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in 26 European countries, 2019

• Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases
• Main Author: The Euro-GASP network
• Other Authors: Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Laboratory Services, Diagnostics and Blood Bank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology; Anti-Infective Agents/therapeutic use; Azithromycin/pharmacology; Cefixime/pharmacology; Ceftriaxone/pharmacology; Ciprofloxacin/pharmacology; Drug Resistance; Bacterial; Female; Gonorrhea/drug therapy; Homosexuality; Male; Humans; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Pharyngitis/drug therapy; Sexual and Gender Minorities; Norway; Ricardo; Klaus; Pasteur; Steen; Linde; Vella; Vesa; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3746; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07509-w

Funding Information: We are grateful to the European STI surveillance network for its contribution to developing and implementing Euro-GASP and submitting gonococcal isolates and epidemiological data. The Euro-GASP Network: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Wien, Austria: Claudia Eder, Sonja Pleininger, Steliana Huhlescu; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium: Irith de Baetselier; Croatian National Institute Of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia: Blaženka Hunjak, Tatjana Nemeth Blažić; Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus: Panagiota Maikanti-Charalampous, Despo Pieridou; The National Institute of Public Health, Prague, The Czech Republic: Hana Zákoucká, Helena Žemličková; Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark: Steen Hoffmann, Susan Cowan; Health Board, Tallinn, Estonia: Rita Peetso, Jelena Viktorova; Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France: Ndeindo Ndeikoundam, Beatrice Bercot; Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland: Anu Patari Sampo, Vesa Kirjavainen; Vivantes Klinikum Neukolln, Berlin, Germany: Susanne Buder, Klaus Jansen; Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece: Vivi Miriagou; National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary: Eszter Balla, Mária Dudás; Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland: Guðrún Sigmundsdóttir, Lena Ros Asmundsdottir; St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland: Sinead Saab, Brendan Crowley; Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy: Anna Carannante, Paola Stefanelli; Riga East University Hospital, Riga, Latvia: Gatis Pakarna, Violeta Mavcutko; Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta: Robert Cassar, Christopher Barbara, Francesca Vella; The Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Alje Van Dam, Ineke Linde; Domain of Infectious Disease Control and Environmental Health, Oslo, Norway: Dominique Caugant, Hilde Kløvstad; Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland: Beata Mlynarczyk-Bonikowska; Instituto Nacional de Saude Dr Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal: Maria-José Borrego; Medirex a.s., Bratislava, Slovak Republic: ...