A Single Amino Acid Substitution in Elongation Factor G Can Confer Low-Level Gentamicin Resistance in <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i>
Concerta L. Holley, Vijaya Dhulipala, Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Adriana Le Van, Afrin A. Begum, Shao-Chun Chen, Timothy D. Read, Mitch Matoga, Irving Hoffman, Daniel Golparian, Magnus Unemo, Ann E. Jerse, William M. Shafer
Abstract
The continued emergence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates which are resistant to first-line antibiotics has reinvigorated interest in alternative therapies such as expanded use of gentamicin (Gen). We hypothesized that expanded use of Gen promotes emergence of gonococci with clinical resistance to this aminoglycoside.
Topics & Concepts
Neisseria gonorrhoeaeBiologyGeneticsMissense mutationMicrobiologyMutantAlleleAntibioticsMutationGeneReproductive tract infections researchBacterial Infections and VaccinesSyphilis Diagnosis and Treatment