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Here we aim to describe how GC culture and identification methods have changed since they were last described by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We performed a systematic literature search to address the questions, \u201cHave culture methods for GC changed since they were last described in 2009,\u201d \u201cWhat biochemical tests can be used for the identification of GC,\u201d \u201cWhat is the utility of MALDI-TOF for detecting GC,\u201d and \u201cWhen should GC culture be performed?\u201d Using defined search terms across 5 electronic databases, we identified 4926 papers published between 2009 and 2024, of which 51 met inclusion criteria for narrative review.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>GC culture conditions have remained largely unchanged, but there has been continued improvement in preanalytical processing products and procedures. Patient-collected specimens, including urine, demonstrate equivalent culture yield compared with clinician-collected specimens, offering opportunities to enhance GC surveillance. Matrix-assisted laser desorption\/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry has emerged as a reliable, rapid, cost-effective, and accurate method of GC identification, offering numerous advantages over traditional biochemical methods for GC identification.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Although the evidence suggests that GC cultures from urogenital specimens of symptomatic patients yield the highest recovery rates, the potential for antimicrobial-resistant GC in the pharynx underscores the importance of culturing all anatomical sites of exposure. Maintaining GC culture capacity remains critically important for surveillance and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of GC.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/ciaf698","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,15]],"date-time":"2025-12-15T12:37:56Z","timestamp":1765802276000},"page":"S13-S18","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Culture and Identification of\n                    <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/i>\n                    : A Narrative Review of Current Laboratory Methods"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"82","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8504-2319","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olusegun O","family":"Soge","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 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