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STD Awareness: Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea
Under the microscope, Neisseria gonorrhoeae infects larger human cells (click to enlarge). The bacteria resemble tiny pairs of coffee beans. Image: Dr. Norman Jacobs, CDC Writing about sexually...
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STD Awareness: Will Gonorrhea Be Worse Than AIDS?
A scanning electron micrograph of a colony of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Image: Portland State University If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might have noticed...
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STD Awareness: Drug-Resistant Trichomoniasis
Trichomonas vaginalis organisms, which cause trichomoniasis. Image: Parasite Image Library, CDC You’ve probably heard of MRSA, which is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that evolved resistance to all...
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STD Awareness: The Latest on Gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that gangs up on your body to give it gonorrhea. Image: CDC Gonorrhea is that guy with the funny name who’s always up to something new and mischievous. Last year,...
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STD Awareness: Is There an STD That Causes Maggots?
Maggots grow up to be flies. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been confronted by two mysteries. The first was a collection of search terms that led curious Web surfers to our blog. Take a gander at...
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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea, Women, and the Pre-Antibiotic Era
Penicillin, the first reliable cure for gonorrhea, was mass produced in the 1940s. It’s Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the achievements of women worldwide — like Margaret Sanger, Rosalind...
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STD Awareness: Genetics and the Gonococcus
Illustration: CDC Ever since the discovery of effective antibacterial therapies less than a century ago, humans have been able to easily cure gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted scourge that laid waste...
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STD Awareness: Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea
Nestled in the throat of a Japanese woman was a collection of clones that scientists abducted from their temporary habitat and christened H041 — a humdrum moniker for a strain of bacteria that would...
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STD Awareness: Which STDs Are Resistant to Antibiotics?
You’ve probably heard of MRSA, which is pronounced “mersa” and stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — a strain of bacteria that is resistant to methicillin, as well as pretty much...
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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea’s Ever-Growing Resistance to Antibiotics
Gonococci, the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Ever since the advent of effective antibacterial therapies less than a century ago, humans with access to these drugs can easily cure gonorrhea. Most of us...
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STD Awareness: Fully Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Is on the Horizon
We’ve been anticipating its arrival for years now, but earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally made an announcement: Cases of gonorrhea resistant to the last...
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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea’s Latest Dubious Honor
Wanted: Scientists who can develop novel antibiotics A few years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a “greatest hits” list of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. More...
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STD Awareness: Is Gonorrhea Becoming “Impossible” to Treat?
Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Health authorities have been worried about it for a long time now, and we’ve been following it on our blog since 2012. The boogeyman?...
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STD Awareness: UK Announces “Worst-Ever” Case of Gonorrhea
In late March, the BBC reported a story that was widely repeated in headlines across the world: “Man has ‘world’s worst’ super-gonorrhoea.” The article told the story of a British man whose symptoms...
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STD Awareness: Is Mouthwash a Match for Gonorrhea’s Superpowers?
Since the 1930s, we’ve enjoyed around eight decades of easily cured gonorrhea — at least in places with easy access to antibiotics — but experts fear those days are numbered. In the past year or so,...
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