多重抗藥性淋菌

奈瑟氏淋病雙球菌（Neisseria gonorrhoeae）所引起的淋病（gonorrhea）在性傳染病的治療益顯重要，因為在過去數十年間，淋菌對許多類的抗生素產生抗性進而影響治療的效果，包括penicillins、tetracyclines、 及fluoroquinolones 等。近年在日本、香港、挪威及英國更陸續開始出現對最後一線用藥cephalosporin 具有抗性的淋菌菌株，多重抗藥性的淋病是公共衛生的威脅，也是性病防治上的隱憂。

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is considered to be most important problem in sexually transmitted disease control because of emerging antibiotics resistant strains that compromise the effectiveness of treatment of the disease-gonorrhea. N. gonorrhoeae has developed resistance not only to penicillins, tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones but also the last available treatment option-cephalosporine in decades. There are verified treatment failure reports to cephalosporine in Japan, Hong Kong, Norway and United Kingdom. Multidrug resistance in N. gonorrhoeae becomes a threat in public health and concern in disease control and prevention.