Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Research
Emergence and Spread of Cephalosporin-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae with Mosaic penA Alleles, South Korea, 2012–2017
Hyukmin Lee, Young Hee Suh, Sunhwa Lee, Yong-Kyun Kim, Mi-Soon Han, Hye Gyung Bae, Magnus Unemo1
, and Kyungwon Lee1
, and Kyungwon Lee1
Table 1
Number of Neisseria gonorrhoeae–positive nucleic acid amplification test specimens examined, by year and location, South Korea, 2012–2017
| Location |
No. (%) tested specimens | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
Total |
|
| Seoul metropolitan area | 192 (44.9) | 171 (32.6) | 185 (30.6) | 141 (23.3) | 338 (41.2) | 252 (28.0) | 1,279 (32.9) |
| Gyeonggi area, including Incheon | 71 (16.6) | 96 (18.3) | 100 (16.6) | 156 (25.7) | 191 (23.3) | 157 (17.4) | 771 (19.9) |
| Gangwon | 4 (0.9) | 12 (2.3) | 7 (1.2) | 19 (3.1) | 16 (1.9) | 14 (1.6) | 72 (1.9) |
| North Chungcheong | 6 (1.4) | 1 (0.2) | 16 (2.6) | 19 (3.1) | 25 (3.0) | 73 (8.1) | 140 (3.6) |
| South Chungcheong, including Daejeon | 22 (5.1) | 21 (4.0) | 69 (11.4) | 62 (10.2) | 53 (6.5) | 103 (11.4) | 330 (8.5) |
| North Jeolla | 2 (0.5) | 2 (0.4) | 13 (2.2) | 12 (2.0) | 24 (2.9) | 42 (4.7) | 95 (2.4) |
| South Jeolla, including Gwanju | 17 (4.0) | 6 (1.1) | 39 (6.5) | 43 (7.1) | 42 (5.1) | 61 (6.8) | 208 (5.4) |
| North Gyeongsang, including Daegu | 49 (11.4) | 93 (17.7) | 78 (12.9) | 93 (15.3) | 83 (10.1) | 103 (11.4) | 499 (12.8) |
| South Gyeongsang, including Busan and Ulsan | 65 (15.2) | 121 (23.1) | 97 (16.1) | 61 (10.1) | 46 (5.6) | 93 (10.3) | 483 (12.4) |
| Jeju |
0 |
1 (0.2) |
0 |
0 |
3 (0.4) |
3 (0.3) |
7 (0.2) |
| Total | 428 (100) | 524 (100) | 604 (100) | 606 (100) | 821 (100) | 901 (100) | 3,884 (100) |
1Joint senior authors.
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