Neisseria gonorrhoeae and their Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns amongPatients from Adama Town, Ethiopia

Abstract

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram negative coffee-bean shaped intracellular diplodocus bacterium that causes gonorrhea which is one of the sexually transmitted infections. Antibiotic resistant, Neisseria gonorrhoeae is emerging in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries; antimicrobial resistance to the commonly prescribed antibiotics. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 422 study participant sexually transmitted infections suspected patients attending Adama Hospital Medical College. Then, samples was transported to Oromia Public Health Research Capacity Building Quality Assurance Laboratory and processed following standard microbiological culture techniques. Antimicrobial susceptibility test was performed. In this study 16(3.8%) of the STI suspected patients were confirmed to have Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Most of the participants were females, multiple sex partners (p=0.001) were associated with increased odds of 42 infection. All Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates were susceptible to ceftriaxone and cefoxitin 16(100%) but all were resistant to penicillin and tetracycline. In this study 16(3.8%) of the STI suspected patients were confirmed to have N. gonorrhoeae. Hence, prevention efforts should consider behavioral risk reduction.