The study authors say the findings could provide opportunities to identify local transmission chains and educate sexual networks.
The WHO said more investigations are needed to the rise in GBS cases, though some patients tested positive for Campylobacter infection.
Of 300 cases recorded since April, 106 have been in the US, with the rest in Europe.
Gonorrhea infections in China are showing decreasing susceptibility to ceftriaxone along with high levels of resistance to other antibiotics.
The designation means that the NgG vaccine, which is in a phase 2 trial, will receive expedited review by FDA officials.
Analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from 3 African countries finds high resistance to ciprofloxacin and emerging resistance determinants for azithromycin.
Gonorrhea infections rose 50% in 2022 compared with 2021, and infectious syphilis diagnoses increased 15%.
Gonorrhea and chlamydia cases increased by 4% in 2021, while syphilis cases rose by 32%.
Trial results were so compelling that researchers stopped the trial early to give all participants post-exposure prophylaxis with doxycycline.
Officials have received a growing number of reports of XDR Shigella, which is highly transmissible and resistant to commonly recommended antibiotics, in adults.
