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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3833-3834, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01041-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Disseminated Gonococcal Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient Caused by an Imported Neisseria gonorrhoeae Multidrug-Resistant Strain

Ivano Dal Conte,1 Stefania Starnino,2 Giovanni Di Perri,1 and Paola Stefanelli2*

STI Clinic, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy,1 Department of Infectious, Parasitic, and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy2

Received 18 May 2006/ Returned for modification 10 July 2006/ Accepted 27 July 2006

We herein report the microbiological features of a Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain isolated from an immunocompetent patient with disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI). The strain expressed the IA/IB serovar; was resistant to penicillin, tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin; and had presumably been acquired in Southeast Asia. To date, this is the first case reported in our country of DGI due to an imported multidrug-resistant strain.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Infectious, Parasitic, and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy. Phone: 390649902126. Fax: 390649387112. E-mail: paolaste{at}iss.it.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3833-3834, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01041-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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