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2. 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]

3. 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.

4. Doxycycline - Wikipedia

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   Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic of the tetracycline class used in the treatment of infections caused by bacteria and certain parasites. [1] It is used to treat bacterial pneumonia, acne, chlamydia infections, Lyme disease, cholera, typhus, and syphilis. [1] It is also used to prevent malaria. [2][3] Doxycycline may be taken by mouth ...

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

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   Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that may not immediately cause anal, vaginal, or penile symptoms. ... A single 800-mg oral dose of cefixime, plus a 100-mg oral dose of ...

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. CDC Recommends Antibiotic for Use as 'Morning After Pill' to ...

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   “[Doxycycline] combats many different bacteria and is our primary treatment for chlamydia, an alternative treatment for syphilis, and has some activity against gonorrhea,” Zucker said.

8. 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 ...

9. Preventive antibiotics may help curb the STI epidemic ... - AOL

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   Gonorrhea is the only of the three STIs with documented acquisition of such resistance. But while doxycycline is proven effective at preventing gonorrhea, it isn’t generally used to treat that ...