Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2024)

Emergence of Extensively Drug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, France, 2023

  • François Caméléna,
  • Manel Mérimèche,
  • Julie Brousseau,
  • Mary Mainardis,
  • Pascale Verger,
  • Caroll Le Risbé,
  • Elise Brottet,
  • Alexandra Thabuis,
  • Cécile Bébéar,
  • Jean-Michel Molina,
  • Florence Lot,
  • Emilie Chazelle,
  • Béatrice Berçot

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3009.240557
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 9
pp. 1903 – 1906

Abstract

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Since 2022, Europe has had 4 cases of extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, sequence type 16406, that is resistant to ceftriaxone and highly resistant to azithromycin. We report 2 new cases from France in 2023 involving strains genetically related to the 4 cases from Europe as well as isolates from Cambodia.

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