Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2019)

Oropharyngeal Gonorrhea in Absence of Urogenital Gonorrhea in Sexual Network of Male and Female Participants, Australia, 2018

  • Vincent J. Cornelisse,
  • Catriona S. Bradshaw,
  • Eric P.F. Chow,
  • Deborah A. Williamson,
  • Christopher K. Fairley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2507.181561
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 7
pp. 1373 – 1376

Abstract

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We describe a sexual network consisting of 1 nonbinary-gendered participant and 2 male and 4 female participants in Australia, 2018. Six of 7 participants had oropharyngeal gonorrhea in the absence of urogenital gonorrhea. This observation supports a new paradigm of gonorrhea transmission in which oropharyngeal gonorrhea can be transmitted through tongue kissing.

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