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SUBMITTER: Unemo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3553714 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20121126 2
Gonorrhea may become untreatable, and new treatment options are essential. Verified resistance to spectinomycin is exceedingly rare. However, we describe a high-level spectinomycin-resistant (MIC, >1,024 μg/ml) Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain from Norway with a novel resistance mechanism. The resistance determinant was a deletion of codon 27 (valine) and a K28E alteration in the ribosomal protein 5S. The traditional spectinomycin resistance gene (16S rRNA) was wild type. Despite this exceedingly ra ...[more]