Gonorrhoea: Past, present and future

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Semchenko, EA
Chen, X
Thng, C
O'Sullivan, M
Seib, KL
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The sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhoea is an ancient human disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Despite decades of research focused on preventing, diagnosing, and treating gonorrhoea, it remains a major global health concern due to its high prevalence, high rates of asymptomatic cases, the severe sequelae that can result from untreated infections, and the increasing difficulty in treating infections caused by multi-drug resistant strains of N. gonorrhoeae. It is estimated that there are more than 87 million cases of gonorrhoea worldwide each year, and the WHO, CDC and Australian National Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Strategy have prioritised N. gonorrhoeae as an urgent public health threat for which new therapeutics and a vaccine are needed.

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Microbiology Australia

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41

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4

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© The Author(s) 2020. This is an Open Access article distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, which permits unrestricted redistribute and reuse the of the article without permission as long as it is not done for commercial purposes and as long as the article is not changed.

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Biochemistry and cell biology

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Semchenko, EA; Chen, X; Thng, C; O'Sullivan, M; Seib, KL, Gonorrhoea: Past, present and future, Microbiology Australia, 2020, 41 (4), pp. 205-209

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