All of the following include disadvantages of nucleic acid probes for Neisseria gonorrhoeae except:

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Nucleic acid detection methods are rapid and sensitive, but they do have some drawbacks, including the inability to identify an N.gonorrhoeae infection produced by a b-lactamase-producing strain.Some other disadvantages of the nucleic acid probes include the following: lesser sensitivity than cervical culture in females, so should be used in high-risk populations only; not approved for pharyngeal or rectal specimens and should not be used in children or sexual abuse cases; do not allow for recovery of an organism to be used for susceptibility testing; and false-positive results have been reported with some strains of N.lactamica and N.cinerea.

All of the Following Include Disadvantages of Nucleic Acid Probes