Seattle researchers report that, among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Seattle and King County, Washington, 5% have gonorrhea with reduced susceptibility to azithromycin, according to a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The CDC issued a foreboding warning, noting that all progress made toward STD elimination in the United States has lost traction.
Although overuse of antimicrobials is a known contributor to antimicrobial resistance in general, researchers reported yesterday they could find no association between numbers of US antimicrobial prescriptions during a recent 8-year period and resistance in the bacteria that causes gonorrhea.
A study today involving 111 patients found that early fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) dramatically improves survival in severe Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs).
New early-stage research out of the United Kingdom has identified a potential antibiotic candidate for treatment of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
Sequoia Sciences announced yesterday that it has received fast-track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational vaccine designed to treat recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. Fast-track designation expedites the development and review of the vaccine through the US regulatory process.
A study today in Genome Biology suggests methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged several years before methicillin was used to treat S aureus infections.
Researchers in New Zealand report today in The Lancet that exposure to the outer-membrane vesical meningococcal B vaccine (MeNZB) was associated with reduced rates of gonorrhea in a retrospective case-control study. It's the first time a vaccine has shown any protection against the sexually transmitted infection.
New data raise the specter of completely resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains, and options are few.
A surveillance study yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases reports high levels of resistance to previously recommended antimicrobials in Neisseria gonorrhea isolates from a city in eastern China.
