First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011

M Unemo; D Golparian; A Stary; A Eigentler

doi:10.2807/ese.16.43.19998-en

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First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011

M Unemo¹, D Golparian¹, A Stary², A Eigentler³
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Affiliations: ¹ Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden ² Outpatients Centre for Diagnosis of Infectious Venero-Dermatological Diseases, Vienna, Austria ³ Microbiological Laboratory Doz. Moest, Innsbruck, Austria

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Citation style for this article: Unemo M, Golparian D, Stary A, Eigentler A. First Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with resistance to cefixime causing gonorrhoea treatment failure in Austria, 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(43):pii=19998. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.43.19998-en Received: 14 Oct 2011

Abstract

We describe the first cefixime-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain in Austria that caused treatment failure. It follows the first five cases in Europe of cefixime treatment failure, reported in Norway in 2010 and the United Kingdom in 2011. Effective treatment of gonorrhoea is crucial for public health control and, at present, requires substantially enhanced awareness, more frequent test-of-cure, interaction with experts after therapeutic failure, tracing and therapy of contacts, and surveillance of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance and treatment failures worldwide.