The Emerging Threat of Untreatable Gonococcal Infection

Gail Bolan, P. Frederick Sparling, Judith N. Wasserheit

New England Journal of Medicine · 2012 · 289 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

Gonorrhea, which disproportionately affects marginalized populations, is the second most commonly reported communicable disease in the United States. Over the past 3 years, the gonococcus has shown decreased susceptibility to our last line of antimicrobial defense.

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