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Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Test to Screen and Diagnose Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infection

Roche announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance to the cobas® CT/NG Test for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) infections in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients from male urine and ...More

1 week ago

Posted in News

Scientists Discover First Gonorrhea Strain Resistant to All Available Antibiotics

An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health. The details of the discovery made ...More

July 11, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Gonorrhea Acquires a Piece of Human DNA

If a human cell and a bacterial cell met at a speed-dating event, they would never be expected to exchange phone numbers, much less genetic material. In more scientific terms, a direct transfer of DNA has never been recorded from humans to bacteria. Until now. Northwestern ...More

February 14, 2011

Posted in News

Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Could be the Next Superbug

The rise of multidrug resistance in gonorrhea-causing bacteria is threatening to make this sexually-transmitted infection extremely difficult to treat. Professor Catherine Ison, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh, highlighted the ...More

March 30, 2010

Posted in News

Syphilis Comeback Could Wipe Out Control Gains, Make Gonorrhea Resistant

Dr. David H. Martin, professor and chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, updated reporters and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on sexually transmitted diseases in the United States on July ...More

July 22, 2009

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Nanoemulsion Potent Against Superbugs Killing Cystic Fibrosis Patients

University of Michigan scientists report highly encouraging evidence that a super-fine oil-and-water emulsion, already shown to kill many other microbes, may be able to quell the ravaging, often drug-resistant infections that cause nearly all cystic fibrosis deaths.Cystic ...More

February 4, 2009

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

CDC Report Finds High Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Reported cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea in the United States exceeded 1.4 million in 2007, according to an annual report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These diseases continue to be the most commonly reported infectious diseases in the ...More

January 13, 2009

Posted in News

Scientists Discover How Some Bacteria Survive Antibiotics

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered how some bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment by turning on resistance mechanisms when exposed to the drugs. The findings, published in the April 24 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, could lead to ...More

May 1, 2008

Posted in News

Researchers Pilot New Electronic System for Infectious Diseases

Researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, HarvardMedicalSchool, Atrius Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have created and tested a set of computer programs that use electronic medical records to help clinicians detect contagious illness and ...More

April 10, 2008

Posted in News

Infectious Disease Doctors Need New Drugs to Treat Gonorrhea

Warning of a looming public health crisis, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is calling for new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea, a common drug-resistant "superbug" that has become increasingly difficult to treat. IDSA's plea came in response to an ...More

April 13, 2007

Posted in News

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