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Cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea in North America.
GONORRHEA HAS AFFECTED HUMANS FOR CENTUries and remains common. Worldwide, an estimated 106.1 million cases occur annually. In 2011, gonorrhea again was the second most commonly reported notifiable infection in the United States with 321 849 cases reported. Because gonorrhea often can be asymptomatic, the true disease burden may be closer to 700 000. Gonorrhea disproportionately affects racial,...
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The new superbug Neisseria gonorrhoeae has retained resistance to antimicrobials previously recommended for first-line treatment and has now demonstrated its capacity to develop resistance to the extended-spectrum cephalosporin, ceftriaxone, the last remaining option for first-line empiric treatment of gonorrhea. An era of untreatable gonorrhea may be approaching, which represents an exceedingl...
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The familiar white urinals, puce-colored walls, and the queasy odor of disinfectant in M207—the men’s room on the mezzanine floor of the University of Pittsburgh’s medical school. I remember standing in a ragged line of seven young men across from the toilet stalls, pants stripped to my ankles. This was the moment, the crux of the clinical trial, the procedure that had seemed so trivial a few w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.05.146