Using epidemiological and molecular methods to investigate an outbreak of gonorrhoea associated with heterosexual contact in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Sexual Health
- Vol. 4 (4) , 233-236
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sh07037
Abstract
We report a cluster of gonorrhoea among mainly heterosexual men that occurred in October 2005, which was first identified when routine weekly surveillance review procedures indicated a three-fold increase in reporting rates compared with historical data.Keywords
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