Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that poses significant public health challenges worldwide. The increasing resistance ...

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium. It is one of the most common STIs in the United States, causing 1.6 million new cases in 2018.

Gonorrhea is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) after chlamydia. In 2020, the WHO said there were 129 million new chlamydia infections in the world, followed by ...

Researchers identify key geographic and health factors that may predict the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea in the United States.

"Getting tested for STIs on a regular basis is an important action that all New Yorkers can take to optimize their health," health officer Wendy Wilcox said.

According to the paper, a mutant form of an immune receptor, found in roughly one fifth of people, helps the immune system detect Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria responsible for the sexually ...

It is warning that if you contract gonorrhea, it is now much harder to treat and in some cases impossible. The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics.

Individuals who received a meningitis B vaccine were less likely to have contracted the sexually transmitted infection than their unvaccinated counterparts ... “One of the observations was that ...

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