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Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate SE690: mosaic penA-60.001 gene causing ceftriaxone resistance internationally has spread to the more antimicrobial-susceptible genomic lineage, Sweden, September 2022
- Daniel Golparian1 , Nora Vestberg2 , Wiktor Södersten3 , Susanne Jacobsson1 , Makoto Ohnishi4 , Hong Fang2 , Karin Haij Bhattarai2 , Magnus Unemo1,5
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and Other STIs, National Reference Laboratory for STIs, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Ӧrebro University, Ӧrebro, Sweden 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden 3 Department of Venerology at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan 5 Institute for Global Health, University College London (UCL), London, United KingdomMagnus Unemomagnus.unemo regionorebrolan.se
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Citation style for this article: Golparian Daniel, Vestberg Nora, Södersten Wiktor, Jacobsson Susanne, Ohnishi Makoto, Fang Hong, Bhattarai Karin Haij, Unemo Magnus. Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate SE690: mosaic penA-60.001 gene causing ceftriaxone resistance internationally has spread to the more antimicrobial-susceptible genomic lineage, Sweden, September 2022. Euro Surveill. 2023;28(10):pii=2300125. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.10.2300125 Received: 19 Feb 2023; Accepted: 07 Mar 2023
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Abstract
We report a ceftriaxone-resistant, multidrug-resistant urogenital Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a female sex worker in Sweden, September 2022, who was treated with ceftriaxone 1 g, but did not return for test-of-cure. Whole genome sequencing of isolate SE690 identified MLST ST8130, NG-STAR CC1885 (new NG-STAR ST4859) and mosaic penA-60.001. The latter, causing ceftriaxone resistance in the internationally spreading FC428 clone, has now also spread to the more antimicrobial-susceptible genomic lineage B, showing that strains across the gonococcal phylogeny can develop ceftriaxone resistance.
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