Test accurately IDs people whose gonorrhea can be cured with simple oral antibiotic
Saturday, August 8, 2020 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
A test designed by UCLA researchers can pinpoint which people with gonorrhea will respond successfully to the inexpensive oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin, which had previously been sidelined over concerns the bacterium that causes the infection was becoming resistant to it. In research published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, a UCLA-led team found that of 106 subjects the test identified […]