1. WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Swedish Reference Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Infections, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
3. Guide Clinic, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
4. APHP, St Louis Hospital, Laboratory of Microbiology; French National Reference Center for Bacterial STI, Associated laboratory for gonococci; Paris Diderot University, IAME, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
5. Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
6. Authors contributed equally to the work and share joint authorship
7. National Gonococcal Reference Laboratory, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland