Newly Identified, Highly Resistant Strain May Herald 'Era of Untreatable Gonorrhea' http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/ ... YO20110711 A strain of N. gonorrhoeae highly resistant to ceftriaxone has emerged, according to research that will be presented today at a meeting of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research in Quebec City. The organism was discovered in samples from Kyoto, Japan, Reuters reports.
The strain shows four- to eightfold higher levels of resistance to ceftriaxone than any previously described isolate, according to the meeting abstract. The organism is also resistant to "all other cephalosporins, as well as most other antimicrobials tested."
The strain's resistance to ceftriaxone, the last line of defense against treatment failures in the disease, represents "a large public health problem," the abstract says. It continues: "The era of untreatable gonorrhea may now have been initiated."
The findings come in the wake of a CDC advisory last week on an increased prevalence of cephalosporin-resistant isolates.
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