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2. STD rates are surging. Are common myths to blame? - AOL

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   What you need to know about STDs. Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and herpes. Debunking myths about sexually transmitted infections.

3. Gonorrhea - Wikipedia

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   Gonorrhea if left untreated may last for weeks or months with higher risks of complications. [19] One of the complications of gonorrhea is systemic dissemination resulting in skin pustules or petechia, septic arthritis, meningitis, or endocarditis. [19] This occurs in between 0.6 and 3% of infected women and 0.4 and 0.7% of infected men. [19]

4. Sexually transmitted infection - Wikipedia

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   An option for treating partners of patients (index cases) diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea is patient-delivered partner therapy, which is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of index cases by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to their partner without the health care provider first examining the ...

5. 'Super-gonorrhea’'is rare. But the STI is smart — and doctors ...

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   Super-gonorrhea sounds scary. How concerned should people in the U.S. be? Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is rare in the U.S., but El Sahly says it’s still important to take it seriously.

6. WHO warns of imminent spread of untreatable superbug gonorrhea

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   The WHO's program for monitoring trends in drug-resistant gonorrhea found in a study that from 2009 to 2014 there was widespread resistance to the first-line medicine ciprofloxacin, increasing ...

7. Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Wikipedia

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   Then in 1883, Max Bockhart proved conclusively that the bacterium isolated by Albert Neisser was the causative agent of the disease known as gonorrhea by inoculating the penis of a healthy man with the bacteria. [9] The man developed the classic symptoms of gonorrhea days after, satisfying the last of Koch's postulates. Until this point ...

8. Cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in Americans age ...

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   In fact, according to Park, “you might be surprised to know that STIs are going up for everybody, including for people over the age of 55.” ... chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis — in ...

9. Gonococcemia - Wikipedia

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   Gonococcemia (also known as "Disseminated gonococcal infection" [1]) is a rare complication of mucosal Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection, or Gonorrhea, that occurs when the bacteria invade the bloodstream. [2] It is characterized by fever, tender hemorrhagic pustules on the extremities or the trunk, migratory polyarthritis, and tenosynovitis. [3]