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Research Letter
Molecular epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae clinical isolates in Reunion and Mayotte
  1. Hervé Jacquier1,2,
  2. Guillaume Miltgen3,4,
  3. Damien Hoarau3,
  4. Sylvain Kumanski2,
  5. Olivier Rollot5,
  6. Sandrine Bruniquet4,
  7. Ndeindo Ndeikoundam6,
  8. Ghislaine Li Pat-Yuen4,
  9. Olivier Belmonte4,
  10. Beatrice Bercot1,7,
  11. Bénédicte Roquebert3,4
  1. 1 IAME, INSERM UMR 1137, Université de Paris, Paris, France
  2. 2 Department of Infectious Agents, French National Reference Center for Bacterial STI, Associated Laboratory for Gonococci, Hospital Group Saint-Louis Lariboisiere and Fernand-Widal, Paris, France
  3. 3 CNRS 9192, INSERM U1187, IRD 249, Unité Mixte Processus Infectieux en Milieu Insulaire Tropical (PIMIT), Plateforme Technologique CYROI, Université de la Réunion, Sainte-Clotilde, Réunion
  4. 4 Microbiology Laboratory, Felix Guyon University Hospital Center, Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, Réunion
  5. 5 INSERM CIC 1410, INSERM, Saint-Pierre, Réunion
  6. 6 STI Program, Sante Publique France, Saint-Maurice, Île-de-France, France
  7. 7 Department of Infectious Agents, Hospital Group Saint-Louis Lariboisiere and Fernand-Widal, Paris, France
  1. Correspondence to Professor Beatrice Bercot, Department of Infectious Agents, Hospital Group Saint-Louis Lariboisiere and Fernand-Widal, 75013 Paris, France; beatrice.bercot{at}aphp.fr

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2019-054374

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    Epidemiological surveillance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has become a major issue, due to the increasing number of cases and the emergence of multidrug-resistant clinical isolates.1 However, little is known about the epidemiology of N. gonorrhoeae in the Indian Ocean. We conducted a retrospective study between 20 October 2016 and 10 April 2017 to characterise the main circulating genotypes of N. gonorrhoeae and their resistance profiles on two islands in the Indian Ocean, Reunion and Mayotte. These islands are part of French overseas territories, and are populated by approximately 860 000 and 250 000 inhabitants, respectively. In total, 206 N. gonorrhoeae isolates were obtained within a network of 40 private and hospital laboratories, and 88 viable isolates (72 from Reunion and 16 from Mayotte) were selected at random for further microbiological and molecular investigations. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were determined for six antibiotics using E-tests (Biomérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) and interpreted according to European Committee …

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    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • BB and BR contributed equally.

    • Correction notice The article has been corrected since it was published online first. The first author's name has been amended to Hervé Jacquier.

    • Contributors Conception and design: HJ, BB, BR. Microbiological and molecular procedures: DH and SK. Analysis: HJ. Drafting and revising the article: HJ, GM, DH, OR, NN, SK, SB, GLP-Y, OB, BR, BB.

    • 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.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Ethics approval All of the procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standard of the Helsinki declaration of 1975, revised in 2000. Demographical data (including geographical origin used in this study) were anonymized, and the database was approved and authorized at a national level (Commission Nationale Informatique et Liberté, no 718544).

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