According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

But there's some unexpected good news: The rate of new gonorrhea cases fell for the first ... and increasingly affecting newborns, too, CDC officials said. Total cases surpassed 207,000 in ...

and how to avoid worsening antibiotic resistance," said David C. Harvey, head of the National Coalition of STD Directors, in a statement to CBS News. Multiple federal health officials said that ...

Two recent studies, published just days apart in Nature Microbiology and Science Translational Medicine found that resistance can develop against new antibiotics even before they are widely used ...

I. Antibiotics currently generally recommended for the treatment of gonorrhea (in vitro resistance patterns are often determined) ESCs * Injectable ESCs: ceftriaxone and others less frequently ...

A dangerous new strain of gonorrhea has medical professionals deeply concerned. This antibiotic-resistant “superbug” version of the sexually transmitted disease poses unprecedented risks ...

New resistance types, such as vancomycin-resistant S. aureus, have been recently developed. Novel antibiotics, such as linezolid, daptomycin and tigecycline, have been successfully introduced into ...

Linezolid (Zyvox AE), an oxazolidinone, is an antibiotic specifically developed for resistant bacterial infections. Linezolid interferes with bacterial protein synthesis at the ribosome.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that gonorrhea ... to monitor the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea strains. Research efforts focus on ...

Advocacy for increased awareness on correct use of antibiotics ... Strengthened antimicrobial resistance surveillance, especially in countries with a high burden of gonorrhea (and/or gonococcal ...

The tests aim to reduce the use of antibiotics and therefore antimicrobial resistance, which is rising globally. A pilot trial will begin later this year, applying the tests in rural settings with ...

Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States ...