- 著者
- Hideharu Hagiya Nobuhiko Onishi Hirotaka Ebara Yoshihisa Hanayama Susumu Kokeguchi Motoko Nose Nobuchika Kusano Fumio Otsuka
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.52, no.23, pp.2669-2673, 2013 (Released:2013-12-01)
- 参考文献数
- 27
- 被引用文献数
- 3
We herein present the case of a 69-year-old Japanese man who had unprotected sexual contact with a local commercial sex worker in an East Asian country and was diagnosed as having disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI). The organism was confirmed to be Neisseria gonorrhoeae based on 16S rRNA sequencing and positive results for the cppB gene. This case indicates that a diagnosis of DGI should also be considered in elderly individuals. DGI potentially causes many complications, and the pathogen has recently been reported to be resistant to various antibiotics. Physicians must therefore pay more attention to the possible occurrence of DGI in various clinical settings.