{"id":1203,"date":"2013-01-24T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2024-02-23T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T11:03:13","slug":"gonorrhoea-treatment-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/gonorrhoea-treatment-update\/","title":{"rendered":"New research into Gonorrhoea treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Better2Know has been blogging about Gonorrhoea becoming resistant to antibiotics regularly.&nbsp; In this <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/254759#1\">new research<\/a> in Medical News Today, there is further evidence that this STI is becoming untreatable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7752\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-2048x1037.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a new strand of the sexually transmitted disease&nbsp; (STD) gonorrhoea has been found to be antibiotic resistant, possibly rendering the disease incurable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strand was found in several North American patients, according to a new report in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers examined the effectiveness of cefixime, the only oral cephalosporin antimicrobial that is advised for treatment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/std-sti-testing\/gonorrhoea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gonorrhoea<\/a> infections. They found that this medicine had a failure rate of nearly seven percent for a group of patients treated in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the new super-bug gonorrhoea is coming, Better2Know has yet to encounter it in any of its patients in the UK, who has always been treated.&nbsp; We do recommend that if you test positive for gonorrhoea you get it treated quickly and you check that it has worked with a second gonorrhoea test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better2Know has been blogging about Gonorrhoea becoming resistant to antibiotics regularly.&nbsp; In this new research in Medical News Today, there is further evidence that this STI is becoming untreatable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[700,844,925,1230,730,826,1247,706,1699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}