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Management of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection over 12 months in a genitourinary medicine setting against British Association for Sexual Health and HIV auditable outcome measures
Audit of gonorrhoea management resulted in recognition of a need to change the clinic protocol for first-line antibiotic therapy and also in improvements in clinic recording of written information given to patients and the outcome of contact tracing.
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