penA, ponA, porB1, and mtrR Mutations and Molecular Epidemiological Typing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with Decreased Susceptibility to Cephalosporins

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Jul 25;61(8):e01174-17. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01174-17. Print 2017 Aug.

Kayo Osawa¹, Katsumi Shigemura^{2

3}, Yukie Nukata¹, Koichi Kitagawa⁴, Fukashi Yamamichi⁵, Hiroyuki Yoshida^{1

6}, Toshiro Shirakawa^{7

4

8}, Soichi Arakawa⁹, Masato Fujisawa⁷

¹ Department of Biophysics, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan.
² Department of Urology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan katsumi@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
³ Department of International Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan.
⁴ Division of Translational Research for Biologics, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
⁵ Department of Urology, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Amagasaki, Japan.
⁶ Hyogo Clinical Laboratory Corporation, Himeji, Japan.
⁷ Department of Urology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
⁸ Division of Advanced Medical Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe, Japan.
⁹ Department of Urology, Sanda City Hospital, Sanda, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: NG-MAST; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; cephalosporins; decreased susceptibility; penA mosaic alleles.

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