About the Authors

Elena Shipitsyna

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, D.O. Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductology, St. Petersburg, Russia, WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and Other STIs, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Tatiana Rumyantseva

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia

Daniel Golparian

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

Guzel Khayrullina

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia

Amaya C. Lagos

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

Inna Edelstein

Affiliation Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Smolensk State Medical University, Smolensk, Russia

Kai Joers

Affiliation United Laboratories, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia

Jörgen S. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Research and Development, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Alevtina Savicheva

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, D.O. Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductology, St. Petersburg, Russia

Natalia Rudneva

Affiliation Tula Regional Clinic of Dermato-Venereology of the Ministry of Health of the Tula Region, Tula, Russia

Larisa Sukhanova

Affiliation Tula Regional Clinic of Dermato-Venereology of the Ministry of Health of the Tula Region, Tula, Russia

Roman Kozlov

Affiliation Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Smolensk State Medical University, Smolensk, Russia

Alexander Guschin

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia

Magnus Unemo

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ES TR AG MU. Data curation: ES TR DG ACL IE KJ ES MU GK IE KJ JSJ AS NR LS RK AG. Formal analysis: ES MU. Funding acquisition: MU. Investigation: ES TR DG ACL IE KJ. Methodology: ES MU. Project administration: MU ES TR AG RK. Resources: ES TR GK IE KJ JSJ AS NR LS RK AG. Software: Not applicable. Supervision: MU. Validation: MU ES TR DG. Visualization: MU ES DG. Writing – original draft: ES MU. Writing – review & editing: ES TR DG GK ACL IE KJ JSJ AS NR LS RK AG MU.