TABLE 1.
Demographic Characteristics of Patients With Urogenital Specimen Collected for GC Culture and Patients With Positive Urogenital Culture With Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, by Site, Strengthening the US Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG), 2018 to 2019
| City of Milwaukee, WI |
Guilford County, NC |
Denver County, CO |
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| Patients With Urogenital Culture* |
Patients With Positive Urogenital GC Culture* With AST |
Patients With Urogenital Culture* |
Patients With Positive Urogenital GC Culture* With AST |
Patients With Urogenital Culture* |
Patients With Positive Urogenital GC Culture* With AST |
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| Characteristic | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Total | 3854 | 992 | 11,006 | 837 | 2445 | 951 | ||||||
| Cisgender female | 2096 | 54.39 | 216 | 21.77 | 8089 | 73.50 | 250 | 29.87 | 1279 | 52.31 | 115 | 12.09 |
| Cisgender male | 1758 | 45.61 | 776 | 78.23 | 2917 | 26.50 | 587 | 70.13 | 1166 | 47.69 | 836 | 87.91 |
| Clinic type | ||||||||||||
| Cisgender female† | ||||||||||||
| STD clinic | 649 | 30.96 | 95 | 43.98 | 342 | 4.23 | 49 | 19.60 | 1006 | 78.66 | 88 | 76.52 |
| Non-STD clinic‡ | 1447 | 69.04 | 121 | 56.02 | 7747 | 95.77 | 201 | 80.40 | 273 | 21.34 | 27 | 23.48 |
| Cisgender male† | ||||||||||||
| STD clinic | 1401 | 79.69 | 629 | 81.06 | 2462 | 84.40 | 471 | 80.24 | 1086 | 93.14 | 800 | 95.69 |
| Non-STD clinic‡ | 357 | 20.30 | 147 | 18.94 | 455 | 15.60 | 116 | 19.76 | 80 | 6.86 | 36 | 4.31 |
| Age, median (IQR), y | ||||||||||||
| Cisgender female† | 22 | (20–25) | 22 | (19–26) | 26 | (22–33) | 24 | (20–28) | 26 | (22–33) | 24 | (20–30) |
| Cisgender male† | 28 | (24–36) | 29 | (25–37) | 27 | (23–34) | 26 | (22–32) | 30 | (25–36) | 30 | (25–36.5) |
| Gender of sex partners among cisgender males†,§ | ||||||||||||
| MSW | 1418 | 80.66 | 674 | 86.86 | 2120 | 72.68 | 422 | 71.89 | 583 | 50.00 | 455 | 54.43 |
| MSM | 223 | 12.68 | 65 | 8.38 | 404 | 13.85 | 81 | 13.80 | 441 | 37.82 | 300 | 35.89 |
| MSMW | 43 | 2.45 | 12 | 1.55 | 63 | 2.16 | 14 | 2.39 | 61 | 5.23 | 47 | 5.62 |
| Unknown | 74 | 4.21 | 25 | 3.22 | 330 | 11.3 | 70 | 11.93 | 81 | 6.95 | 34 | 4.07 |
More than one urogenital specimen may have been collected for Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture from some patients.
We defined cisgender females as patients who self-identified as female, were assigned female at birth, and had endocervical or vaginal specimens collected for culture. We defined cisgender males as patients who self-identified as male, were assigned male at birth, and had urethral specimens collected for culture.
Non-STD clinics included the following: emergency departments, urgent care centers, infectious disease practices, LGBTQ-focused health centers, HIV care sites, federally qualified health centers, reproductive health clinics, and women’s hospital and health clinics.
Patient self-reported gender of sex partners in the previous 3 months among cisgender males.
AST indicates antimicrobial susceptibility testing; CO, Colorado; GC, Neisseria gonorrhoeae; IQR, interquartile range; NC, North Carolina; MSM, men who have sex with men; MSMW, men who have sex with men and women; MSW, men who have sex with women; STD, sexually transmitted disease; WI, Wisconsin.