Articles Tagged With: ceftriaxone
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Clinician Alert: XDR Salmonella Typhi Acquired in the United States
Nine patients in the United States with no travel history had typhoid fever due to extensively drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi.
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Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea Has Arrived in the United States
A man in Las Vegas with gonorrhea was infected with the first ceftriaxone-resistant strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae identified in the United States.
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Ceftriaxone-Resistant Salmonella Typhi in the United States Associated with Travel to or from Pakistan and Iraq
Typhoid fever resulting from antibiotic-resistant strains is being imported from Pakistan and Iraq.
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Drug Combination Considered for Treatment-Resistant Gonorrhea
Newly released research indicates that a certain combination of drugs, gentamicin and azithromycin, may work as well as ceftriaxone alone for cases of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Imagine: Multidrug-Resistant GC; A New Borrelia Species in the ‘Old World’
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Push Is on to Combat Drug-resistant Gonorrhea
In a recently released study, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers report that while 81% of patients diagnosed with gonorrhea were treated using dual therapy, nearly one in five were treated with a different regimen.
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Research Identifies Potential New Gonorrhea Treatments
About 820,000 new gonococcal infections occur in the United States each year, with some 570,000 appearing in young people ages 15-24. In an effort to stem the tide of infection, science has identified a potential new treatment, which uses a peptide to disrupt an enzyme the microbe needs to respirate.
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GASP! Increasing Worldwide Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea threatens to make the infection untreatable in some patients.