From February 2022 to February 2023, they collected (using cotton swabs) and genetically sequenced bacterial samples from six ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhea that can readily establish an ...

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

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 ...

and doctors are worried about the increasing number of gonorrhea cases with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Produced by Jacqui Frank. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI Video ...

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 ...

Despite improvements in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases across the country, the infection rate remains high in Georgia, especially for gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to data from ...

With sexually transmitted infection incidence rising markedly ... Among the STIs, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections have been rising the fastest. Between 2009 and 2021, there was ...

Reno said it was interesting that while chlamydia positivity decreased from 9.6%-2% and at all sites of infection, the decline in positivity was smaller for gonorrhea and no decline was observed ...