Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and molecular characterization of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Ghana, 2012-2015

• Naiki Attram ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: npuplampu@noguchi.ug.edu.gh, attramn@state.gov

  Affiliations US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-1990

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• Bright Agbodzi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Helena Dela,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Eric Behene,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

  Affiliations US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Edward O. Nyarko,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Military Hospital, Accra, Ghana

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• Nicholas N. A. Kyei,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Military Hospital, Accra, Ghana

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• John A. Larbi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John A. Larbi, Bernard W. L. Lawson

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Bernard W. L. Lawson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John A. Larbi, Bernard W. L. Lawson

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Kennedy K. Addo ,

  Roles Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Mercy J. Newman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Science, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Christopher A. Duplessis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana

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• Nehkonti Adams,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Navy Medicine Professional Development Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana

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• Magnus Unemo,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Andrew G. Letizia

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Ghana Laboratory, Legon, Ghana

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