{"id":2878,"date":"2014-08-15T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T07:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:44:12","slug":"gonorrhoea-drug-resistance-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/gonorrhoea-drug-resistance-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonorrhoea Drug Resistance Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Regular readers of this blog will know that we have reported on the increased resistance of gonorrhoea to antibiotics regularly over the last few years. &nbsp;Well, finally there is some good news that gonorrhoea is now less resistant than it used to be according to research by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).<\/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>The report published on 31 July 2014 shows that compared to two years ago (2012), more gonorrhoea was being successfully treated. &nbsp;The study has taken samples of gonorrhoea from 20 countries in the EU and EEA and collected a total of 1,927 different types of &#8220;isolates&#8221; of <em>Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/em>. &nbsp;This year only 4% of them did not react to the antibiotic used in the trial, compared to 7.6% in 2011 and 8.7% in 2010. &nbsp;This is still a number of people who are not being treated successfully with one drug. &nbsp;In the UK it is common for gonorrhoea to be treated with two different antibiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full report is available <a title=\"EDDC Gonorrhoea\" href=\"http:\/\/ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications\/Publications\/gonococcal-antimicrobial-susceptibility-surveillance-Europe-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are worried about gonorrhoea, Better2Know can help you to get tested and treated. &nbsp;We can test for Gonorrhoea using your choice of urine or swab, and your choice of location including our Everywhere, Clinics and Home Sample collection service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog will know that we have reported on the increased resistance of gonorrhoea to antibiotics regularly over the last few years. &nbsp;Well, finally there is some good news that gonorrhoea is now less resistant than it used to be according to research by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4,20,14,19],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1245,2780,1726,1699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878"}],"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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}