Little stands between US and untreatable Gonorrhea
Published on 04/20/2020
“Antibiotics have successfully treated gonorrhea for several decades; however, the bacteria has developed resistance to nearly every drug used for treatment.”
Over 800K new infections occur in the US annually. Many infected people don’t show symptoms; hence over 50% are not reported to CDC.
- Gonorrhea has progressively developed resistance to the antibiotic drugs commonly used to treat it complicate the ability of providers to treat gonorrhea
- It is critical to continuously test and monitor antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and encourage research and development of new treatment regimens.
Published in the following categories: AMR CDC Clinical Infectious Disease STI