
Antimicrobial resistance to clinically relevant antibiotics for Neisseria meningitidis was rare among isolates collected from 2012 through 2016 for a study in the United States.
“Reduced susceptibility of Neisseria meningitis to clinically relevant antibiotics has historically been uncommon in the United States,” Henju Marjuki, PhD, a researcher in the CDC’s Division of Bacterial Diseases, told Healio.
“More recently, however, detection of a beta-lactamase-positive, penicillin-resistant meningococcal strain in the U.S. has led to guidance that health care providers