Emergence of an extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae clone

Affiliations

• ¹ Department Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, New South Wales Health Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ² Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ³ Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia; The Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; PathWest Laboratory Medicine-WA, Department of Microbiology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
• ⁴ University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Queensland Health, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• ⁵ WHO Collaborating Centre for Sexually Transmitted Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, New South Wales Health Pathology, Microbiology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia. Electronic address: monica.lahra@health.nsw.gov.au.