Sentences with phrase «caused gonorrhoea»

Targeting such groups for treatment caused gonorrhoea infection rates to drop steeply in industrialised countries since the 1970s — but now they are climbing again.

Not exact matches

These types are most notoriously known for causing meningitis and gonorrhoeae, which thrive in mucous membranes and are spread through sexual contact.

It is part of a class of pathogenic bacteria that are becoming increasingly antibiotic - resistant and that includes E. coli, a leading cause of urinary tract infections, and N. gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea.

Researchers are trying to find out if a vaccine against meningitis B, caused by related bacteria, might cause some cross-immunity to gonorrhoea.

In the mid-1970s, two dangerous bugs almost simultaneously became resistant to penicillin: Haemophilus influenzae, which induces respiratory infections, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the cause of the venereal disease gonorrhea.

Gonorrhea, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, infects an estimated 78 million people every year.

Gonorrhoea is caused by bacteria which can rapidly develop resistance to all known antibiotics — commonly called «superbugs».

Published today in PLOS Pathogens, Dr Thomas Naderer and Dr Pankaj Deo and their team from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, have discovered how the gonorrhoea - causing superbug (which is very small) creates even smaller packages of bacterial membrane blebs, termed vesicles, which attack immune cells.

Another very worrisome development is the emergence of multi-resistant Neisseria strains that cause the STD gonorrhoea.

It also kills bacteria that cause ulcers, throat infections, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and gonorrhoea, etc..

I had a microbiology professor a few years back, and as a Neisseria gonorrhoeae researcher, he always had stories to tell about gonorrhea, the disease caused by the bacteria he studied.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea, is pictured here in a photograph taken with a scanning electron microscope.

This month's installment will focus on gonorrhea, colloquially known as «the clap,» a common sexually transmitted disease caused by sneaky bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a species of tricky bacteria that cause gonorrhea, which can infect the mouth, throat, rectum, urethra, cervix, and even eyes.

In the younger age group, epididymitis is usually caused by sexually transmitted bacteria, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Escherichia coli, which have spread from the urethra to the testicles.