RAPID ASSESSMENT and RESPONSE to Neisseria Gonorrhoeae with DECREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY to CEPHALOSPORINS In California

Carol Kong, MPH1, Heidi Bauer, MD, MS, MPH2, Ina Park, MD, MS3, Mark Pandori, PhD, HCLD(ABB)4, Kyle Bernstein, PhD, ScM5, Ellen Rudy, PhD6, Elaine Pierce, MD7, Christopher Ried, MD8, Paula Dixon9, Olusegun Soge, PhD10, Gail Bolan, MD11 and Michael Samuel, DrPH2, 1Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, California Department of Public Health, STD Control Branch, Richmond, CA, 2STD Control Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, 3Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Control Branch, Division of Communicable Disease Control, Center for Infectious Diseases, Cal, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, 4Laboratory, San Francisco Department of Public Health Laboratory, San Francisco, CA, 5STD Prevention and Control Services Program, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, 6STD Program, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, 7HIV/STD/Hepatitis Branch, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, San Diego, CA, 8STD/HIV Services, Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana, CA, 9Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 10Global Health STI Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 11Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA