Neisseria gonorrhoeae Antimicrobial Resistance: Past to Present to Future.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococcus) is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes gonorrhoea-a sexually transmitted disease. This gonococcus has progressively developed resistance to most of the available antimicrobials. Only a few countries around the world have been able to run extensive surveillance programmes on gonococcal infection and antimicrobial resistance, raising a global concern. Thus, this review focuses on the mechanisms of resistance to recommended antimicrobials in the past and present time. The approaches by the scientific community in the development of novel technologies such as whole-genome sequencing to predict antimicrobial resistance, track gonococcal transmission, as well as, introduce new therapeutics like Solithromycin, Zoliflodacin, and Gepotidacin were also discussed.