Patent ID: 8071303

Claim:
A method of detecting Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a sample, the method comprising: (a) contacting nucleic acids from the sample with at least a first set of oligonucleotides in a nucleic acid amplification reaction, the first set of oligonucleotides comprising: a first oligonucleotide consisting of at least 90% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 38 or with full complements thereof, and a second oligonucleotide selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NOS: 39-45, a substantially identical variant thereof wherein the variant has at least 90% sequence identity to one of SEQ ID NOS: 39-45, and with full complements of SEQ ID NOS: 39-45 and the variant; and (b) detecting one or more amplicons thereof from the nucleic acid amplification reaction during or after (a), thereby detecting the Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the sample.