ALLMedicine™ Gonorrhea Center

May 16th, 2021 - Men who have sex with men (MSM) experience high rates of gonococcal infection at extragenital (rectal and pharyngeal) anatomic sites, which often are missed without asymptomatic screening and may be important for onward transmission. Implementing ...

May 14th, 2021 - The Estimated Lifetime Medical Cost of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Trichomoniasis in the United States, 2018: Erratum.|2021||

May 13th, 2021 - Multidrug resistance is a serious problem that threatens the effective treatment of the widespread sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The drug efflux pump primarily implicated in N....

May 10th, 2021 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington State's Stay Home, Stay Healthy (SHSH) order was implemented on 3/24/2020. We hypothesized that pandemic mitigation measures might reduce sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and/or transm...

May 10th, 2021 - Because most sources of administrative claims data do not contain laboratory result data, researchers rely on diagnosis codes to identify cases of disease. The validity of using diagnosis codes to identify chlamydial and gonococcal infections in a...

Nov 4th, 2019 - Antibiotics have successfully treated gonorrhea for several decades; however, the bacteria has developed resistance to nearly every drug used for treatment.

Oct 7th, 2019 - Data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show STDs have surged for the fifth consecutive year, reaching an all-time high in the U.S. These dangerous trends in chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis show no sign o...

Sep 9th, 2018 - Your patients can get infections when receiving healthcare, called healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). HAIs are commonly caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens (germs), which may lead to sepsis or death. People can also get antibiotic-resis...

May 20th, 2018 - Sexually transmitted diseases have reached unprecedented high levels, according to the CDC, with more than two million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, the highest number ever, reported in the U.S. in 2016. To make matters worse, not o...

Feb 14th, 2018 - Gonorrhea has progressively developed resistance to the antibiotic drugs prescribed to treat it. Following the spread of gonococcal fluoroquinolone resistance, the cephalosporin antibiotics have been the foundation of recommended treatment for gon...

May 16th, 2021 - Men who have sex with men (MSM) experience high rates of gonococcal infection at extragenital (rectal and pharyngeal) anatomic sites, which often are missed without asymptomatic screening and may be important for onward transmission. Implementing ...

May 14th, 2021 - The Estimated Lifetime Medical Cost of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Trichomoniasis in the United States, 2018: Erratum.|2021||

May 13th, 2021 - Multidrug resistance is a serious problem that threatens the effective treatment of the widespread sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The drug efflux pump primarily implicated in N....

May 10th, 2021 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington State's Stay Home, Stay Healthy (SHSH) order was implemented on 3/24/2020. We hypothesized that pandemic mitigation measures might reduce sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and/or transm...

May 10th, 2021 - Because most sources of administrative claims data do not contain laboratory result data, researchers rely on diagnosis codes to identify cases of disease. The validity of using diagnosis codes to identify chlamydial and gonococcal infections in a...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Annual cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States jumped for the sixth year in a row in 2019, according to a new CDC report that highlights an increase in congenital syphilis and rising rates of syphilis, chlamydia, and g...

Apr 8th, 2021 - An investigational vaginal gel significantly reduced urogenital chlamydia and gonorrhea in women at high risk for infection, compared with placebo, opening up new possibilities for an on-demand prevention option. Investigators of a randomized tria...

Sep 1st, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea rose from 2010-2017 among women ages 25-30, a new study reveals. Current screening guidelines, which set the cutoff age as 24, "are not sufficient given today's societal norms, where wom...

Aug 10th, 2020 - A simple test can identify which patients with gonorrhea can be treated with a single pill rather than a painful injection, researchers report. This type of testing "is the wave of the future," Aaron E. Glatt, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, Infectious Di...

Aug 10th, 2020 - A simple test can identify which patients with gonorrhea can be treated with a single pill rather than a painful injection, researchers report. This type of testing "is the wave of the future," Aaron E. Glatt, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, Infectious Di...