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Few Pregnant Women Treated for Sexually Transmitted Infections

Many pregnant women with sexually transmitted infections aren’t getting the treatment they need when they visit emergency rooms, according to a new Michigan State University study that highlights a wholly preventable risk to unborn children and raises questions about ...More

February 8, 2013

Posted in News

Study Documents Failure Rate of Antibiotic Treatment for Gonorrhea

In an examination of the effectiveness of cefixime, the only oral cephalosporin antimicrobial recommended for treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea) infections, researchers found a clinical treatment failure rate of nearly 7 percent for patients treated at a clinic ...More

January 9, 2013

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WHO Says Urgent Action Needed to Prevent the Spread of Untreatable Gonorrhea

Millions of people with gonorrhea may be at risk of running out of treatment options unless urgent action is taken, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Already several countries, including Australia, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom are ...More

June 11, 2012

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Many Pregnant Women Not Screened for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, Study Finds

Many women are not screened for chlamydia and gonorrhea infection during their pregnancy, and follow-up testing is not always performed as medically recommended for those who test positive for chlamydia, according to a study published online in the American Journal of ...More

May 17, 2012

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Researchers Identify Novel Pathway Responsible for Infection of a Common STD Pathogen

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have for the first time identified a novel pathway that is necessary for infection to occur with the pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is responsible for the second most common infectious disease worldwide, ...More

February 27, 2012

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Scientists Sound the Alarm Over Threat of Untreatable Gonorrhea

Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a Perspective commentary in the Feb. 9, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. In July 2011, the Centers for Disease Control ...More

February 9, 2012

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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

February 1, 2012

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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

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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

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