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SUBMITTER: Uehara AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3232978 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Uehara Aline A AA Amorin Efigênia L T EL Ferreira Maria de Fátima Mde F Andrade Claudia F CF Clementino Maysa B M MB de Filippis Ivano I Neves Felipe P G FP Pinto Tatiana de C A Tde C Teixeira Lúcia M LM Giambiagi-Demarval Marcia M Fracalanzza Sérgio E L SE
Journal of clinical microbiology 20111005 12
Despite the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance among gonococci worldwide, limited reports are available from Brazilian locations. In the present study, 25 quinolone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (QRNG) strains isolated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were characterized by phenotypic and molecular methods, including analysis of mutations in the gyrA and parC genes. They represented 16.5% of the N. gonorrhoeae isolates obtained during a survey performed from 2006 to 2010. A trend for increasing re ...[more]