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Gonorrhea Laboratory Information

Antimicrobial Resistance Susceptibility Testing

• Disk Diffusion
  • B88 document- Neisseria gonorrhoeae reference strains for antimicrobial susceptibility testing 
• Agar Dilution
• Interpretive Criteria

Identification of N. gonorrhoeae and Related Species

• Introduction, Natural Habitat, Pathogenicity, Prevalence
• Biochemical Tests
  • Detection of acid produced from carbohydrates
  • Enzyme substrate test
  • Nitrate reduction
  • Production of polysaccharide from sucrose
  • Dnase
• Taxonomy

Characteristics of N. gonorrhoeae and Related Species of Human Origin

• N. gonorrhoeae
  • subspecies kochii
• N. meningitidis
• N. lactamica
• N. cinerea
• N. polysaccharea
• N. flavescens
• N. mucosa
• N. sicca
• N. elongata
• Moraxella catarrhalis
• Kingella denitrificans

Strain Typing/Serology

• Polyvalent Antibody Typing
• Peptide Mapping Studies
• Monoclonal Antibody Typing
• Serological Nomenclature
• References

Resources

• Resources