Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2022)

Association of Phylogenomic Relatedness among Neisseria gonorrhoeae Strains with Antimicrobial Resistance, Austria, 2016–2020

  • Justine Schaeffer,
  • Kathrin Lippert,
  • Sonja Pleininger,
  • Anna Stöger,
  • Petra Hasenberger,
  • Silke Stadlbauer,
  • Florian Heger,
  • Angelika Eigentler,
  • Alexandra Geusau,
  • Alexander Indra,
  • Franz Allerberger,
  • Werner Ruppitsch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2808.220071
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 8
pp. 1694 – 1698

Abstract

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We investigated genomic determinants of antimicrobial resistance in 1,318 Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains isolated in Austria during 2016–2020. Sequence type (ST) 9363 and ST11422 isolates had high rates of azithromycin resistance, and ST7363 isolates correlated with cephalosporin resistance. These results underline the benefit of genomic surveillance for antimicrobial resistance monitoring.

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