Sentences with phrase «gonorrhoeae antibiotic»

Hand - held rapid whole genome nanopore sequencing to predict neisseria gonorrhoeae antibiotic susceptibility: steps towards clinic based tailored antimicrobial therapy

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The letter, which is also signed by chief pharmaceutical officer Dr Keith Ridge, stated: «Gonorrhoea has rapidly acquired resistance to new antibiotics, leaving few alternatives to the current recommendations.

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.

The bacteria behind gonorrhoea readily acquire genes for resisting drugs and so from 2012, UK patients were given two antibiotics at once — azithromycin pills plus a ceftriaxone injection — so if bacteria acquired resistance to one, they would be killed by the other.

England's public health agency has discovered more cases of gonorrhoea that are resistant to nearly all antibiotics.

Infections that can cross over from animals should also be high priority, he says, as well as antibiotic resistance in pathogens like cholera and gonorrhoea.

Gonorrhoea — a sexual infection also known as «the clap» — is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

The findings are especially important as Neisseria gonorrhoeae is considered a «superbug» because of its resistance to all classes of antibiotics available for treating infections.

Between the limited profits to be made from drugs that cure infections and the previous success of antibiotics against gonorrhoea there has been little investment in the disease.

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

Next generation sequencing can accurately predict antibiotic susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) allowing preservation of first - line treatments in the face of widespread antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Thanks to the discovery of penicillin in the early 20th century, syphilis and gonorrhoea can now be treated with antibiotics, but both infections were once incurable.