Routine Pharyngeal Gonorrhea Test of Cure: Is It an Effective Cephalosporin-Resistant Gonorrhea Control Strategy?
Routine pharyngeal GC TOC yielded 5% positivity, although treatment failure was rare (<1%), and no cases of cephalosporin-resistant GC were identified. Low TOC return rates, limited culture collection, and limited culture yield highlight challenges to determining the cause of a positive TOC and the limitations of TOC in identifying cephalosporin resistance.
Authors
- Masayo Nishiyama
- Laura H. Bachmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3178-7224)
- Jason Beverley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-8923)
- Stephanie E. Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1632-1074)
- Jonathan Bell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6624-0854)
- Kellie Hall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0570-8652)
- Stephanie Devlin
- Corinne Velasquez
- Kevin Kamis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0301-5219)
- Laura A.S. Quilter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2150-8682)
- Lindley A. Barbee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7189-5492)
- Aileen Bergström (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7091-7514)
- Christie Mettenbrink
- Mareio C Harris
- Rachel E. Harold
- Renuka Khurana
- Megan Coleman
- Robert Kohn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-0719)
- Karen A. Wendel
- Richard Horowitz
- Madeline Sankaran
- Benjamin Takai
- Cortni Bardier
Institutions
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (US)
- Denver Health Medical Center (US)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health (US)
- Denver Public Health (US)
- Public Health Institute (US)
- Maricopa County Department of Public Health (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/olq.0000000000002157
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.37