Gonorrhea surveillance study maps antibiotic resistance across Europe

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The first European-wide genomic survey of gonorrhea has mapped antibiotic resistance in this sexually transmitted disease throughout the continent. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators showed that using DNA sequencing data they could accurately determine antibiotic resistance and identify incorrect laboratory test results. Reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, this genomic approach could one day help doctors prescribe the mo...