Drug resistant gonorrhea discovered

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Published on July 11, 2011 at 11:53 PM
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

Japanese scientists have found a superbug strain of gonorrhea that’s resistant to all available antibiotics. This can pose a threat to public health worldwide, infectious disease experts say.





The international team identified the highly drug-resistant strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae â€" the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection â€" through genetic analysis. Gonorrhea is one of the most common STIs in the world and can cause infertility, increase HIV transmission, and has profound effects on infants born to infected mothers, including blindness. Left untreated, the disease can be fatal. The strain is called H041 and has extreme resistance to all cephalosporin-class antibiotics, the last remaining drugs still effective in treating gonorrhea.


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