Please refer to this page for the protocol for responding to suspected antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea, including information on testing and reporting.
How to Respond to Suspected Treatment Failure
More information on gonorrhea culture collection
Public Health Laboratory Quick Sheet
LabCorp Culture Collection Instructions
Quest Diagnostics Culture Collection Instructions
Reporting support
More information on reporting drug-resistant gonorrhea
For questions about reporting drug-resistant gonorrhea in Los Angeles County, call the Provider Clinical Consultation Warmline for sexually transmitted diseases.
More information on diagnosing and treating antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea
Local Resources
Los Angeles County clinic sites participating in Combatting Antimicrobial Resistant Gonorrhea and Other STIs (CARGOS) surveillance project from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
North Hollywood Public Health Center
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center of Public Health
State Resources
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (NG) Culture and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST)
Availability for California Providers, written by California Prevention Training Center.
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea information page, written by California Department of Public Health.
National Resources
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea information page, written by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control's Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines 2021
Combatting Antimicrobial Resistant Gonorrhea and Other STIs (CARGOS) project overview.