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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
Research Letter

Cephalosporin-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae Clone, China

Shao-Chun Chen, Yue-Ping YinComments to Author , and Xiang-Sheng Chen
Author affiliations: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Nanjing, China (S.-C. Chen, Y.-P. Yin, X.-S. Chen); Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing (S.-C. Chen, Y.-P. Yin, X.-S. Chen)

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Table

MICs of antimicrobial drugs for Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from 4 case-patients with cephalosporin-resistant NG-MAST G1407/MLST 1901 infections identified through the national Gonococcal Resistance Surveillance Program, China, 2015–2016*

Case-patient no. MIC, mg/L
CRO CFM CIP PEN SPT AZM PPNG
1 0.5/R 0.5/R 8/R 16/R 16/S 1/S No
2 0.5/R 1/R 32/R 16/R 32/S 0.5/S No
3 0.5/R 0.5/R 32/R 16/R 32/S 1/S No
4 0.25/R 0.5/R 32/R 16/R 64/S 1/S No

*AZM, azithromycin; CFM, cefixime; CIP, ciprofloxacin; CRO, ceftriaxone; MLST, multilocus sequence type; NG-MAST, N. gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence type; PEN, penicillin; PPNG, penicillinase-producing N. gonorrhoeae; R, resistant; S, susceptible; SPT, spectinomycin.

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