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Correspondence
Successful minocycline treatment for multidrug-resistant Mycoplasma genitalium proctitis
  1. Hassan Tarhini1,2,
  2. Racha Ibrahim2,
  3. Antoine Bachelard2,
  4. Bao Phung2,
  5. Stephane Lo3,4,
  6. Jade Ghosn2,4
  1. 1 Hôpital NOVO, Pontoise, France
  2. 2 Infectious Diseases, Hopital Bichat—Claude-Bernard, Paris, France
  3. 3 Bacteriology Department, Hopital Bichat—Claude-Bernard, Paris, France
  4. 4 INSERM, Paris, Île-de-France, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hassan Tarhini; hassan.tarhini{at}aphp.fr

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Footnotes

  • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

  • Contributors HT, AB and BP were the treating physicians. SL was the bacteriologist. HT and RI wrote the manuscript. JG supervised the work. JG, SL, AB and BP edited the manuscript.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer-reviewed.