European and Japanese researchers have discovered a strain of gonorrhea that is immune to all available antibiotics.
Dr. Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria at Orebro University Hospital, says the mutated strain is likely to transform a treatable infection into a global threat to public health.
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The announcement was made at the International Society for the Sexually Transmitted Disease Research meeting in Quebec City, Canada.
Gonorrhea is a common bacterial infection that can be transmitted through oral, genital or anal sex with an infected person.
As Reported By MSNBC:
For several years, public health officials have been concerned that gonorrhea, one of the most prevalent STDs in the world, might become resistant to the last widely available antibiotics used to treat it, a class of drugs called cephalosporins.
Now, it has.
In the space of one week, infectious disease specialists have received a one-two punch of bad news that confirms those fears, including the discovery of a new, cephalosporin-resistant strain of the bacteria.
The percentage of U.S. gonorrhea cases that are resistant to the two cephalosporins used to treat it, cefixime, taken orally, and ceftriaxone, injected, is on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project, a lookout program designed to spot resistance, found that 1.4 percent of patient samples showed growing ability to defeat cefixime in 2010 compared to just .2 percent in 2000. Resistance to ceftiaxone grew from .1 percent to .3 percent during the same period.
Then Sunday, a Japanese-European team presenting data at the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research meeting in Quebec City, Canada, publicly announced the discovery of a new strain of gonorrhea, H041, that displays a strong resistance to ceftriaxone.
SOURCE: MSNBC
Take a look of how gonorrhea can affect the body.
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The infection of gonorrhea on the body.
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The infection of gonorrhea on the body.
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The infection of gonorrhea on the body.
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The infection of gonorrhea on the body.
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The infection of gonorrhea on the body.
