P1-S1.44 Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of<i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i>isolates in the Province of QuÉbec - 2010
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Abstract
Background Regular monitoring of antimicrobial resistance of N gonorrhoeae is necessary to detect the trend in antimicrobial resistance, increases in minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and to assist in the development of treatment guidelines. Methods In 2010, all N gonorrhoeae strains isolated in clinical laboratories throughout the province were submitted to the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec where their susceptibility profile to azithromycin, cefixime, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and spectinomycin was determined by the agar dilution method. Results A total of 831 strains isolated from 607 males and 224 females were tested. The strains were recovered from (data available for 819 strains) the following specimens—urethra, 432; cervix, 191; anus, 100; throat, 90; eye, 4; and synovial fluid, 2. All strains were susceptible to cefixime, ceftriaxone and spectinomycin, 270 (32.5%) were resistant to ciprofloxacin and 11 (1.3%) were resistant to azithromycin (MIC ≥2 mg/l). The azithromycin resistant isolates were retrieved from 11 males aged 16–55 years (mean, 30) from the Montreal area (urethra, 8; throat, 3). The azithromycin MIC distribution was as follows—4 mg/l (n=1), 8 mg/l (n=6), 16 mg/l (n=4). No highly resistant organism (MIC>128 mg/l) was identified. Among the azithromycin resistant isolates, one was resistant to ciprofloxacin but all were susceptible to cefixime, ceftriaxone and spectinomycin. In 2010, 68 (8.2%) isolates exhibited decreased susceptibility to cefixime (MIC=0.125 mg/l [n=62] and 0.25 mg/l [n=6]). Of these 68 isolates, all were susceptible to azithromycin and ceftriaxone but all were resistant to ciprofloxacin. Only one isolate showed decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone (MIC=0.125 mg/l)—this isolate also showed decreased susceptibility to cefixime. Conclusions As observed elsewhere, N gonorrhoeae strains are showing a worrisome drift in susceptibility to cefixime, a first line treatment for gonococcal infections associated with resistance to ciprofloxacin. Furthermore, resistance to azithromycin, a second line treatment option, is emerging. Sustained collaborative laboratory surveillance programs are mandatory for the design of public health interventions to prevent and control gonococcal infections.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".