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Abstract

is a bacterial pathogen that causes gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. Increasing antimicrobial resistance in is providing motivation to develop new treatment options. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of the antibiotic ramoplanin as a treatment for infection. We tested the effectiveness of ramoplanin against 14 World Health Organization (WHO) reference strains of and found that it was active against all 14 strains tested. Furthermore, in a infection model of WHO P, we demonstrated that ramoplanin was active without any evidence of toxicity. This suggests that ramoplanin might be a new promising antibiotic treatment for gonorrhoea.

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