Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium. It is one of the most common STIs in the United States, causing 1.6 million new cases in 2018.

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

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

and the bacteria are then free to keep multiplying, according to recent reports released by the CDC. “The gonorrhea organism is very adaptable and very smart,” said Candy Hadsall, a prevention nurse ...

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

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, has become a significant public health concern worldwide. The increasing resistance to commonly ...

Traditional gonorrhea, while serious, has been treatable with antibiotics. This new strain, however, demonstrates remarkable resistance to conventional treatments. The bacteria thrive in the warm ...

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 ...

The pharyngeal infection was considered to have resolved spontaneously within 3 months. MLST: Multilocus sequence typing; ND: Not determined; NG-MAST: Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence ...

Rates of all bacterial sexually transmitted infections in San Francisco were down by the end of 2024 compared to the previous ...

Sexually transmitted infections are rising in Europe, especially gonorrhea and syphilis, among younger adults. But one STI ...