Newly Found Gonorrhea Superbug Resists All Existing Antibiotics
A new strain of the gonorrhea bacteria can resist all available antibiotics, doctors say. Gonorrhea is one of the world's most common sexually transmitted diseases, so this could portend a major threat to public health. This should actually not be surprising, because for some time now, just one class of drug has been able to successfully treat the infection. Now researchers in Sweden and Japan identified a new variant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bug that causes gonorrhea, that can survive that last remaining drug, the cephalosporin-class antibiotics. Researchers isolated the strain from the throat of a sex worker in Japan, the Los Angeles Times reports. Related ArticlesFragment of Human DNA Found in Genome of Gonorrhea BacteriaDiagnosis of STDs Could Be As Quick As Peeing On A Chip And Putting It In Your PhoneChemical Additive to Antibiotics Could Make Them Newly Effective Against Resistant BacteriaTagsScience, Rebecca Boyle, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, bacteria, diseases, drug-resistant pathogen, health,...