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PRO/EDR> Gonococcal disease – antibiotic resistance, WHO

Gonorrhea, Antimicrobial resistance -- Worldwide/UnknownData from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea - a common sexually-transmitted infection - much harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat."The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them," said Dr Teodora Wi, Medical Officer, Human Reproduction, at WHO.WHO reports widespread resistance to older and Read more [...]