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Hindi Journal of Immunological Techniques & Infectious Diseases ISSN: 2329-9541
Smita Damke Author
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Changing trends in gonococcal infections-shift to MSM: Emerging resistances
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Dr. Smita Damke was an assistant professor of Microbiology he started Gonococcal infections are a major part of sexually transmitted infections among MSM. The rising trend of gonococcal infections in males is alarming and screening of antibiotic resistance is important to treat them Cefixime susceptibility testing was halted in 2007 due to the lack of availability of cefixime in the United States and restarted in 2009. Control N. gonorrhoeae strains with known MICs of a variety of antimicrobials were included with each susceptibility run to ensure the accuracy of the data.
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Changing trends in gonococcal infections-shift to MSM: Emerging resistances
Author(s): Smita Damke
Gonococcal infections are a major part of sexually transmitted infections among MSM. The rising trend of gonococcal infections in male is alarming and screening of antibiotic resistance is important to treat them. The objective is to isolate gonococci and detect the resistance of gonococci by phenotypic methods from patients attending the venereology department. All the patients with cervical discharge or urethral discharge attending the venereology department were screened by grams stain and culture was done on Thayir Martin medium. Antibiotic resistance was detected by the disc diffusion method as per CLSI guidelines.
A total of 50 gonococcal isolates were identified from males with urethral discharge. None were isolated from females. Out of 50 isolates, 60%... view more»
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