TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 609 LP - 609 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051434 VL - 89 IS - 8 AU - Jackie A Cassell Y1 - 2013/12/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/8/609.abstract N2 - As the festive season approaches, we hope you will enjoy this month's ‘double bill’—a regular journal issue accompanied by a Supplement for the World Health Organization, exploring the international challenges of antimicrobial resistance in gonorrhoea. The advent of the penicillin age at the end of World War II transformed the treatment of gonorrhoea, including disseminated infection of which the resurgence is the subject of an epidemiological report this month.1 Urology wards are no longer the regular haunts of men suffering from the urethral strictures which tormented Boswell, Rousseau and Henry VIII. But Neisseria gonorrhoeae showed its potential for developing resistance to our new magic bullet early on, has kept pace with novel antimicrobials, and now seriously threatens to become untreatable. The gonococcus is at the cutting edge of bacterial evolution and has been the core interest of Professor Cathy Ison's career as an internationally respected microbiologist. Cathy is honoured this month in an … ER -