Fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Multidisciplinary approaches are needed

Magnus Unemo; Christian L. Althaus

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002423

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Fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Multidisciplinary approaches are needed

Magnus Unemo ,

* E-mail: magnus.unemo@regionorebrolan.se

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other STIs, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-2081

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Christian L. Althaus

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5230-6760

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Fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Multidisciplinary approaches are needed

Magnus Unemo,
Christian L. Althaus

Published: October 31, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002423

About the Authors

Magnus Unemo

* E-mail: magnus.unemo@regionorebrolan.se

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other STIs, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-2081

Christian L. Althaus

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5230-6760

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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