News tagged with gonorrhea
Scientists sound alarm over threat of untreatable gonorrhea in United States
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective in the Feb. 9 issue of the New En ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Portable device will quickly detect pathogens
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Cornell professors will combine their inventions to develop a handheld pathogen detector that will give health care workers in the developing world speedy results to identify in the field ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Two sex-spread diseases increase, syphilis down
(AP) -- Cases of some common sexually spread diseases continue to increase in the United States, but the syphilis rate dropped last year for the first time in a decade.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Rise of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea needs urgent action
Gonorrhea is evolving into a scourge resistant to most antibiotics, and urgent action is needed to combat this public health threat, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Canada warns not to buy 'fresh' semen online
Canada's health agency on Tuesday warned would-be parents not to purchase "fresh" semen online, saying it may be tainted with infectious diseases.
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Scientists discover first gonorrhea strain resistant to all available antibiotics
An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Mutated scarlet fever fuels Hong Kong outbreak
(AP) -- Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries - an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Alaska ranks No. 1 for chlamydia
Alaska again ranks first in the nation for chlamydia and is second for gonorrhea, state public health officials announced Tuesday.
May 05, 2011 |
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A more definitive test for a common sexually transmitted infection
A study from the microbiology lab at Rhode Island Hospital has found that a new test may be more accurate in identifying a common sexually transmitted infection (STI), Trichamonos vaginalis (TV). The researchers also noted ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Guatemala STD study was 'wrong': US panel
The head of a bioethics commission convened by President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that a 1940s study of STDs using patients in Guatemala was wrong and that a US probe was continuing.
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Free in-home kits help encourage STD testing in young people
Up to half of sexually active young people will get a sexually transmitted disease by the time they are 25, yet many don't seek testing because it may be difficult, costly or embarrassing.
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Gonorrhea acquires a piece of human DNA
If a human cell and a bacterial cell met at a speed-dating event, they would never be expected to exchange phone numbers, much less genetic material. In more scientific terms, a direct transfer of DNA has never been recorded ...
Feb 14, 2011 |
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US gonorrhea rate at record low, other STDs rise
(AP) -- A new government report on sexually spread diseases shows gonorrhea in the United States has dipped to the lowest rate ever recorded.
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Mobile phone app to diagnose sexually transmitted infections
(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative plan in the UK aimed at cutting rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs, also known as sexually transmitted diseases or STDs) such as herpes, gonorrhea, and chlamydia ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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1 Chinese baby born with syphilis every hour
Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say.
May 06, 2010 |
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Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea (also colloquially known as the clap) is a common sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The usual symptoms in men are burning with urination and penile discharge. Women, on the other hand, are asymptomatic half the time or have vaginal discharge and pelvic pain. In both men and women if gonorrhea is left untreated, it may spread locally causing epididymitis or pelvic inflammatory disease or throughout the body, affecting joints and heart valves.
Treatment is commonly with ceftriaxone as antibiotic resistance has developed to many previously used medications.
In 2011, there were reports of some strains of gonorrhea showing resistance to ceftriaxone.
For more information about Gonorrhea, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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