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2. Gonorrhea: When You Do and Don’t Know You Have It - AOL

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   While younger adults are more likely to get gonorrhea, older sexually active adults are more likely to get an antibiotic-resistant strain. ... A single 800-mg oral dose of cefixime, plus a 100-mg ...

3. Cefixime - Wikipedia

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   Cefixime, sold under the brand name Suprax among others, is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections. [5] These infections include otitis media, strep throat, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, gonorrhea, and Lyme disease. [5] For gonorrhea typically only one dose is required. [6]

4. Gonorrhea - Wikipedia

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   Gonorrhea affects about 0.8% of women and 0.6% of men. [6] An estimated 33 to 106 million new cases occur each year, out of the 498 million new cases of curable STI – which also includes syphilis, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis. [8] [9] Infections in women most commonly occur when they are young adults. [3] In 2015, it caused about 700 deaths ...

5. Cefpodoxime - Wikipedia

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   Cefpodoxime is an oral, third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic available in various generic preparations. It is active against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms with notable exceptions including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus, and Bacteroides fragilis. It is typically used to treat acute otitis media, pharyngitis ...

6. New antibiotic shows promise for drug-resistant gonorrhea - AOL

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   Gonorrhea is the second most common STI in the U.S. and has developed resistance to all antibiotics used to treat it, except for the recommended combined therapy of an injection of the antibiotic ...

7. Cephalosporin - Wikipedia

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   Since August 2012, the third-generation cephalosporin, ceftriaxone, is the only recommended treatment for gonorrhea in the United States (in addition to azithromycin or doxycycline for concurrent Chlamydia treatment). Cefixime is no longer recommended as a first-line treatment due to evidence of decreasing susceptibility. [30] Ceftriaxone ...

8. Antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea - Wikipedia

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   Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea, has developed antibiotic resistance to many antibiotics. The bacteria was first identified in 1879. [1] In the 1940s effective treatment with penicillin became available, but by the 1970s resistant strains predominated.

9. Cefodizime - Wikipedia

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   Cefodizime is a 3rd generation cephalosporin antibiotic with broad spectrum activity against aerobic gram positive and gram negative bacteria. Clinically, it has been shown to be effective against upper and lower respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, and gonorrhea. Cefodizime is a bactericidal antibiotic that targets ...