Survey of the laboratory diagnosis of gonorrhoea and chlamydial infection in the UK

Highlights from this issue

“…This month, Tuddenham and Ghanem's editorial introduces a mini-series on the threat of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) gonorrhoea,2 featuring expert analyses by international experts Rice,3 Lewis,4 and Giguère and Alary 5. The widespread adoption of (often unconfirmed) nucleic acid testing as reported from the UK by Toby et al 6 has limited our ability to track emerging resistance in the real time allowed by culture methods, for all their limitations. Culture confirmation is reported by Mohammed et al to be lower in women and men who have sex with men than in heterosexual men in the UK 7.…”