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PRO/EDR> Gonococcal disease – USA (03): increasing azithromycin resistance, 2014
Gonorrhea -- United StatesAmid increasing gonorrhea infections, CDC researchers found its resistance to azithromycin -- the primary drug used to treat it -- has quadrupled in the last year.Having beaten each antibiotic used against it over the last several decades, gonorrhea is now showing resistance to the primary drug currently used against it, according to a new report. Although azithromycin is effective against gonorrhea, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the resistance Read more [...]
