Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

CanB is a metabolic mediator of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Author(s): Rubin DHF, Ma KC, Westervelt KA, Hullahalli K, Waldor MK, Grad YHJournal: Nat MicrobiolPMID: 36604513 January 2023

The evolution of the obligate human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been shaped by selective pressures from diverse host niche environments…

Neisseria gonorrhoeae diagnostic escape from a gyrA-based test for ciprofloxacin susceptibility can lead to increased zoliflodacin resistance

Author(s): Rubin DHF, Mortimer TD, Grad YHJournal: bioRxiv August 2022

The etiologic agent of gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has become resistant to each of the first line antibiotics used to treat…

Adaptation to the cervical environment is associated with increased antibiotic susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Author(s): Ma KC, Mortimer TD, Hicks AL, Wheeler NE, Sánchez-Busó L, Golparian D, Taiaroa G, Rubin DHF, Wang Y, Williamson DA, Unemo M, Harris SR, Grad YHJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 32807804 August 2020

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an urgent public health threat due to rapidly increasing incidence and antibiotic resistance. In contrast with the…

The frontiers of addressing antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Author(s): Rubin DHF, Ross JDC, Grad YHJournal: Transl ResPMID: 32119845 June 2020

The sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea, caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, can cause urethritis, cervicitis, and systemic disease, among…