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Volume 11, Number 7—July 2005
Perspective

Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Michigan

Kathryn E. Macomber*, Martha S. Boehme*, James T. Rudrik*, Dara Ganoczy†, Erin Crandell-Alden*, William A. Schneider*, and Patricia A. Somsel*
Author affiliations: *Michigan Department of Community Health, Lansing, Michigan, USA; †Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Table 2

Patient and specimen characteristics, gonorrhea study, Michigan*

2003 non-QRNG
N = 550 (%) 2003 QRNG
N = 14 (%) 2004 non-QRNG
N = 502 (%) 2004 QRNG
N = 8 (%)
Median age, y 23 26 24 26
Sex
Male 267 (49) 11 (79) 411 (82) 8 (100)
Female 281 (51) 3 (21) 91 (18) 0
Unknown 2 (0) 0 0 0
Race
Black 323 (59) 7 (50) 313 (62) 0
White 76 (14) 6 (43) 89 (18) 7 (88)
Other 9 (1) 0 6 (1) 1 (12)
Unknown 142 (26) 0 94 (19) 0
Asian 0 1 (7) 0 0
Hispanic
Yes 11 (2) 1 (7) 16 (3) 0
No 204 (37) 12 (86) 283 (57) 7 (88)
Unknown 335 (61) 1 (7) 203 (40) 1 (12)
Site of specimen
Cervix/vagina 260 (47) 2 (21) 74 (15) 0
Eye 1 (1) 1 (7) 1 (0) 0
Urethra 244 (44) 7 (43) 392 (78) 6 (75)
Throat 16 (3) 1 (7) 16 (3) 0
Rectal 17 (3) 1 (7) 11 (3) 1 (12)
Urine 6 (1) 2 (15) 5 (1) 1 (12)
Other 6 (1) 0 3 (0) 0
Symptoms
Discharge/dysuria 338 (61) 10 (72) 373 (74) 6 (75)
None 72 (13) 3 (21) 56 (11) 1 (12)
Unknown 140 (26) 1 (7) 73 (15) 1 (12)

*QRNG, quinolone-resistant gonorrhoeae.
†Intermediate QRNG grouped with non-QRNG cases.

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