94.5 KATS » gonorrhea http://katsfm.com THE Rock Station Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 New 'Superbug' Strain of Gonorrhea Resists Antibiotics http://katsfm.com/new-superbug-strain-of-gonorrhea-resists-antibiotics/ http://katsfm.com/new-superbug-strain-of-gonorrhea-resists-antibiotics/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:13:38 +0000 John Riggs http://katsfm.com/?p=8643 Gonorrhea, a bacterial sexually transmitted infection, used to be easily treated with antibiotics. But now, a "superbug" strain of the STD has been found in Japan and scientists fear it could become a global public health threat.

"Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it," said Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, who discovered the strain with Japanese colleagues.

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