Definition of "gonococcal" [gonococcal]

• Of, or pertaining to, the gonococcus. (adjective)

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• "As media attractions, these spectacles tend to garner more coverage than discussions of the epidemiology of gonococcal infections."
• "You're supposed to go by the demographics and guess it's a gonococcal infection if the patient is under age 40 -- if they're older, you treat it as a staph infection."
• "Prof Ison, from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in London, explained how some strains of the gonococcal bacteria that cause the disease are now demonstrating decreased sensitivity to the current antibiotics used to treat them - ceftriaxone and cefixime."