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Gonococcal Infections in Newborns and in Adolescents

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Gonococcal (GC) genital tract infection was first recognized by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC and later given its name — “gonorrhea” meaning “flow of semen” — by Galen in second century AD (Woods 2005). Despite the passage of time, much research, the advent of sensitive and specific diagnostic tests and effective antimi-crobial therapy, gonorrhea remains one of the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STI), in both industrialized and developing countries. This chapter focuses on gonococcal infections in two groups — newborns who acquire infection from their mothers at the time of delivery, and adolescents: a group at the center of the ongoing worldwide STI epidemic.

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MacDonald, N., Mailman, T., Desai, S. (2008). Gonococcal Infections in Newborns and in Adolescents. In: Finn, A., Pollard, A.J. (eds) Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children IV. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 609. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73960-1_9

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