Meeting the public health challenge of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae

JW Tapsall, F Ndowa, DA Lewis… - Expert review of anti …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Globally, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is increasing in
prevalence, both within and across antibiotic classes, including extended-spectrum …

Review and international recommendation of methods for typing Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates and their implications for improved knowledge of gonococcal …

M Unemo, JAR Dillon - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Gonorrhea, which may become untreatable due to multiple resistance to available
antibiotics, remains a public health problem worldwide. Precise methods for typing Neisseria …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages across sexual networks in the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis era

DA Williamson, EPF Chow, CL Gorrie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has been used to investigate transmission of Neisseria
gonorrhoeae, but to date, most studies have not combined genomic data with detailed …

Decreased susceptibility to cephalosporins among gonococci: data from the Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme (GRASP) in England …

CA Ison, K Town, C Obi, S Chisholm… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Effective treatment of gonorrhoea is fundamental to public health control;
however, the ability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to successively develop resistance to different …

[HTML][HTML] Sexually transmitted diseases in the USA: temporal trends

SO Aral, KA Fenton, KK Holmes - Sexually transmitted infections, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Molecular epidemiology of syphilis—San Francisco, 2004-2007

KA Katz, A Pillay, K Ahrens, RP Kohn… - Sexually transmitted …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
We describe the molecular epidemiology of syphilis in San Francisco (SF) using Treponema
pallidum specimens obtained from patients examined at the SF municipal sexually …

Genomic analysis and comparison of two gonorrhea outbreaks

X Didelot, J Dordel, LK Whittles, C Collins, N Bilek… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease causing growing concern, with a substantial
increase in reported incidence over the past few years in the United Kingdom and rising …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic power-law sexual network model of gonorrhoea outbreaks

LK Whittles, PJ White, X Didelot - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Human networks of sexual contacts are dynamic by nature, with partnerships forming and
breaking continuously over time. Sexual behaviours are also highly heterogeneous, so that …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape genetics reveals focal transmission of a human macroparasite

CD Criscione, JD Anderson, D Sudimack… - PLoS Neglected …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Macroparasite infections (eg, helminths) remain a major human health concern. However,
assessing transmission dynamics is problematic because the direct observation of …

Mind the gap: the role of time between sex with two consecutive partners on the transmission dynamics of gonorrhea

MI Chen, AC Ghani, J Edmunds - Sexually transmitted diseases, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Both the duration of sexual partnerships and the time between two consecutive
partnerships (gap length) varies between populations. We use a mathematical model with …