Reduction in Antibiotic Prescribing Attainable With a Gonococcal Vaccine.
Stephen M KisslerMoriah MitchellYonatan H GradPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
We estimated the fraction of antibiotic prescribing in the United States attributable to gonorrhea. Gonorrhea contributes to an outsized proportion of antibiotic prescriptions in young adults, males, and in the southern and western United States. A gonococcal vaccine could substantially reduce antibiotic prescribing in these populations.