The Distribution and Spread of Susceptible and Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae Across Demographic Groups in a Major Metropolitan Center.
Tatum D MortimerPreeti PathelaAddie CrawleyJennifer L RakemanYing LinSimon R HarrisSusan BlankJulia A SchillingerYonatan Hagai GradPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
All large transmission clusters were susceptible to gonorrhea therapies, suggesting that resistance to empiric therapy was not a main driver of spread, even as risk for resistance varied across demographic groups. Further study of local transmission networks is needed to identify drivers of transmission.