TY - JOUR T1 - Culture of the gonococcus: a reliable gold standard? JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 178 LP - 178 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2016-053004 VL - 93 IS - 3 AU - David Barlow Y1 - 2017/05/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/93/3/178.abstract N2 - There are differences of opinion as to the value of cultures in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea. Personally I think them indispensable in the case of women…1For most of this Journal's existence laboratory culture of Neisseria gonorrhoeae provided definitive identification. However, even at its apogee, a single culture lacked 100% sensitivity. Multiple sampling, from multiple sites, was necessary to diagnose, to exclude and … ER -