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Untreatable gonorrhoea, are we there yet?

Author(s) -

Collette Bromhead,

Heather Hendrickson

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the biochemist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1740-1194

pISSN - 0954-982X

DOI - 10.1042/bio03903030

Subject(s) - neisseria gonorrhoeae , gonorrhea , gonococcal infection , medicine , disease , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , broad spectrum , syphilis , sexually transmitted disease , virology , biology , genetics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry

Gonorrhoea is a relatively common and easily spread bacterial sexually transmitted disease that can cause a wide spectrum of symptoms from none to severe outcomes. Through its penchant for modifying its own genetics, Neisseria gonorrhoeae has gradually evolved to become one of modern medicine's greatest adversaries. In most countries we have only one antibiotic left to treat it with, and even that option is rapidly running out. So how do we stop this train wreck? What do we do when the treatments run out altogether?

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