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Gonorrhea if left untreated may last for weeks or months with higher risks of complications. [17] One of the complications of gonorrhea is systemic dissemination resulting in skin pustules or petechia, septic arthritis, meningitis, or endocarditis. [17] This occurs in between 0.6 and 3% of infected women and 0.4 and 0.7% of infected men. [17]
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhea that can readily establish an infection in the mucous membranes lining the throat, vagina, penis, and anus ...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, also known as gonococcus (singular) or gonococci (plural), is a species of Gram-negative diplococci bacteria isolated by Albert Neisser in 1879. [3] It causes the sexually transmitted genitourinary infection gonorrhea [4] as well as other forms of gonococcal disease including disseminated gonococcemia, septic arthritis, and gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum.
Epidemiology of gonorrhoea. 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 ...
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 ...
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is rare in the U.S., but El Sahly says it’s still important to take it seriously. Dr. Matthew Hamill, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of ...
108,000 (STIs other than HIV/AIDS, 2015) [4] A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex. [1][5][6] STIs often do not ...
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.