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American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1(62), 2024

DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01039-23

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Maximizing the Neisseria gonorrhoeae confirmatory rate and the genotypic detection of ciprofloxacin resistance for samples screened with cobas CT/NG

Journal article published in 2024 by Todd M. Pryce ORCID, Olivia R. Foti, Erin J. Haygarth, David M. Whiley ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Supplementary nucleic acid amplification testing for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) is widely used to circumvent specificity problems associated with extragenital sites. Here, we compared different supplementary approaches for confirming NG-positive samples from the cobas 4800 CT/NG (c4800) and cobas 6800 CT/NG (c6800) assays using the ResistancePlus GC (RP-GC) assay, which in addition to detecting NG, also predicts ciprofloxacin susceptibility via NG gyrA characterization. Two different nucleic acid extraction techniques were investigated for RP-GC detection; extracts from c4800 (c4800-RP-GC) and MagNA Pure 96 (MP96-RP-GC). NG-positive ( n = 300) and -negative ( n = 150) samples in cobas PCR media from routine c4800 testing were retrospectively retested with c4800, c6800, c4800-RP-GC, and MP96-RP-GC. Selected samples were also tested with Xpert CT/NG (Xpert) for discrepant analysis. The gyrA status was compared to ETEST ciprofloxacin susceptibility or non-susceptibility for recovered isolates ( n = 63). Extragenital confirmatory rates were higher for MP96-RP-GC (131/140; 93.6%) compared to c4800-RP-GC (126/146; 86.3%), albeit not significantly ( P = 0.6677). Of 9 samples testing positive by c6800 and negative by MP96-RP-GC, 7/9 (77.8%) were also negative by Xpert. By contrast, the number of samples returning a valid gyrA status was significantly ( P = 0.0003) higher for MP96-RP-GC (270/293; 92.2%) compared to c4800-RP-GC (245/298; 82.2%). The overall MP96-RP-GC gyrA status correlated 98.4% (61/62) with the reported ciprofloxacin sensitive (35/36; 97.2%) or non-susceptible (26/26; 100%) phenotype. Improved RP-GC confirmatory rates and reported gyrA status were observed using MP96 nucleic acids compared to c4800 extracts. The data further highlight the ongoing need for NG supplemental testing for oropharyngeal samples.