Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2002

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  • John Tapsall WHO Collaborating Centre for STD and HIV, Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW Australia 2031
  • WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal AMR Surveillance Programme Krause WHO Collaborating Centre for STD and HIV, Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW Australia

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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2003.27.77

Keywords:

surveillance, nei, antimicrobial resistance, gonorrhoea, antibiotics, quinolones, penicillin, spectin, cephalosporin

Abstract

The World Health Organization's Western Pacific Region (WHO WPR) long standing programme for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, GASP, continued in 2002. Seventeen countries contributed data on about 11,500 gonococci by determining susceptibility patterns using standardised methodologies. Resistance to quinolone and penicillin antibiotics remained widely dispersed and at historically high levels. Gonococci with decreased susceptibility to third generation cephalosporins were again observed in several centres. Spectinomycin resistance was infrequently encountered. Control of gonorrhoea in the WHO WPR is compromised by the further reduction in options for cheap and effective treatment of gonorrhoea. Commun Dis Intell 2003;27:488-491.

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31/12/03

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Tapsall, John, and WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal AMR Surveillance Programme Krause. 2003. “Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2002”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 27 (December):488-91. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2003.27.77.

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