Of 156 patients with a drug-resistant gonorrhea, 2.6% had received a prescription for azithromycin in the previous 29 days and 24% had received one in the previous 30 to 364 days.

Because of this, an infected individual can unwittingly transmit it to others during oral, vaginal, or anal sex. Studies have ...

The drugs, azithromycin and ceftriaxone, are used in combination to treat gonorrhea, a strategy experts hope will prolong the period during which these critical drugs will work.

March 15, 2012 — An azithromycin-resistant variant of gonorrhea that developed in just 12 days was detected with genotyping and highlights the rapid emergence of clinical gonococcal resistance ...

Gonorrhea samples taken last spring from seven patients in Honolulu showed resistance to azithromycin at dramatically higher levels than typically seen in the United States, the U.S. Centers for ...

The rise of azithromycin resistance in N. gonorrhoeae has prompted a December 18 change in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for treating uncomplicated gonorrhea.

The misuse and overuse of antibiotics, particularly azithromycin, is only adding more dynamite to the powder keg that is super gonorrhea. “Such a situation can fuel emergence of resistance in ...

This is the first reported case in the world of N. gonorrhea which has both high-level resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

Antibiotic resistance is causing gonorrhea to become harder and sometimes impossible to treat, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Gonorrhea, which is a sexually transmitted disease ...

However, agency researchers report that the number of U.S. cases of gonorrhea where strains showed "decreased susceptibility" to a key antibiotic, azithromycin, jumped from 0.6 percent in 2013 to ...

HealthDay News — For uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea, gepotidacin, which inhibits bacterial DNA replication, is noninferior to ceftriaxone plus azithromycin, according to a study published ...

Where resistance was seen to azithromycin or ceftriaxone, the infecting strain was still susceptible to the other drug and the cases were cured, he said. But the specter of pan-resistant gonorrhea ...