It is for this reason that the CDC recommends annual gonorrhea testing for sexually active women under 25 as well as sexually ...

Gonorrhea under a microscope. Image: courtesy of CDC/Susan Lindsley The arms race between humanity and disease-causing bacteria is drawing to a close and the bacteria are winning. The latest evidence: ...

Now about that gonorrhea diagnosis: ... The specific organisms are easy to miss under the microscope; a culture is more reliable, though it too is negative in 40% to 60% of cases.

Under the microscope A willing volunteer, Jess, was asked to sleep in the same bed for 28 nights straight and not wash or change the sheets, pillowcases or duvet cover.

Intracellular gonorrhea bacteria seen in gram staining under a microscope. ... Gonorrhea became increasingly difficult to treat as it developed resistance to existing antibiotics.

Your doctor may check fluid samples under a microscope and send cultures for gonorrhea and chlamydia to the lab. They might also recommend some tests: Blood test.

Two cases of a worrisome new strain of gonorrhea that’s proven resistant to antibiotics have been discovered, according to Massachusetts health officials. While both patients improved after ...

Testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia usually requires a few days. Yeast infections are the most common type of vaginal infection, affecting three out of four women at one point or another in their ...

More than 2.4 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia were diagnosed and reported last year — 1.6 million cases of chlamydia, 600,000 of gonorrhea, ...

In New Zealand, around one million people under age 20 received a meningitis vaccine known as MeNZB during a 2004-06 immunization program. This provided a valuable opportunity to test for cross ...