Sentences with phrase «gonorrhea resistance»

Gonorrhea resistance was initially discovered in the Philippines in servicemen suffering from venereal disease.

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Gonorrhea, once a minor illness, is developing resistance to the last category of drugs that still works against it and could become untreatable

China has a high rate of antimicrobial consumption, but has limited data on antimicrobial resistance in gonorrhea.

World health officials have raised alarms that the growing resistance of gonorrhea to antibiotics could cause it to become untreatable.

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel proteins in, or on the surface of the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, which offer a promising new avenue of attack against a venereal disease that is showing increased resistance to the antibiotics used to treat it.

«It is possible for increases in untreated infections to offset some of the protective abilities of PrEP, especially given the increases in antibiotic resistance for the medications used to treat some of the common bacterial infections like gonorrhea and chlamydia,» he said.

There are genes that confer resistance to every single antibiotic we use to cure gonorrhea.

There are genes out there that confer resistance to every single antibiotic we use to cure gonorrhea.

Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV / AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, warned that «if resistance continues to increase and spread, current treatment will ultimately fail and 800,000 Americans a year will be at risk for untreatable gonorrhea.»

The emergence of antibiotic - resistant gonorrhea is considered one of the most pressing problems in infectious disease — just two years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named it an «urgent threat,» and indeed, gonorrhea seems to be evolving resistance to drugs at quite a rapid clip.