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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005 56(2):437; doi:10.1093/jac/dki201
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

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Nalidixic acid-susceptible, ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain in the UK

P. L. Ragunathan1,*, C. Ison2 and D. M. Livermore3

1 Microbiology Department, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Bedford, UK; 2 Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infections, Colindale, UK; 3 Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infections, Colindale, UK

* Corresponding author. E-mail: lakshmi.ragunathan@bedhos.anglox.nhs.uk

Keywords: gonococcus , fluoroquinolones , susceptibility tests , resistance

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Sir,

We report the first detection of a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae susceptible to nalidixic acid but resistant to ciprofloxacin. Although ciprofloxacin-resistant N. gonorrhoeae strains are already frequent in the UK,1 the observation is significant because disc tests with nalidixic acid . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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