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If untreated, gonorrhea can spread to joints or heart valves. [1] [2] Gonorrhea affects about 0.8% of women and 0.6% of men. [6] An estimated 33 to 106 million new cases occur each year. [10] [11] In 2015, it caused about 700 deaths. [12] Diagnosis is by testing the urine, urethra in males, vagina or cervix in females.
It causes the sexually transmitted genitourinary infection gonorrhea [6] as well as other forms of gonococcal disease including disseminated gonococcemia, septic arthritis, and gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. N. gonorrhoeae is oxidase positive and a microaerophile that is capable of surviving phagocytosis and growing inside neutrophils. [6]
Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. [1]The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that, in 2016, the global incidence rate was 20 per 1000 women and 26 per 1000 men, totaling 86.9 million new gonococcal infections among people between 15 and 49 years old.
Cases of gonorrhea — the second most common STI — are skyrocketing in the U.S.
Sexually transmitted infections: Nobody wants them, but they're more common than you think, and transmissions are increasing. ... while gonorrhea and chlamydia ticked up about 3% each ...
[7] [8] The term sexually transmitted infection is generally preferred over sexually transmitted disease or venereal disease, as it includes cases with no symptomatic disease. [9] Symptoms and signs of STIs may include vaginal discharge, penile discharge, ulcers on or around the genitals, and pelvic pain. [1] Some STIs can cause infertility. [1]
Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in older adults. An expert explains why. Cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in Americans age 55 to 64 have more than doubled over the past ...
An infectious disease agent can be transmitted in two ways: as horizontal disease agent transmission from one individual to another in the same generation (peers in the same age group) [3] by either direct contact (licking, touching, biting), or indirect contact through air – cough or sneeze (vectors or fomites that allow the transmission of the agent causing the disease without physical ...