Man contracted new antibiotic-resistant 'super gonorrhea' strain after having sex on holiday
on Thursday in the medical journal Eurosurveillance, which is published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Most cases of gonorrhea don't produce symptoms, but can still cause serious complications such as infertility if it is not possible to treat the infection. Symptoms include discharge and pain when a person pees, and painful testicles or irregular vaginal bleeding.The unidentified man in his fifties had condomless sex with a female sex worker in Cambodia in April 2022, according to the case report. Five days later, he experienced pain while peeing and had discharge coming out of his penis.
Gonorrhea treatment varies from country-to-country, but tends to start with a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone. In the US,ceftriaxone as a single antibiotic for most gonorrhea cases in the first instance. The man was initially treated with azithromycin and ceftriaxone. Two weeks later his symptoms resolved, but a penile swab still showed he had gonorrhea. Tests showed his"super" bug was still susceptible to treatment with an antibiotic containing penicillin called co-amoxiclav. The drug appeared to treat the gonorrhea, the scientists said.
The case report authors said that"promisingly," the man's swab results suggested two experimental drugs called lefamulin and zoliflodacin, would also likely to work against it. These two medicines are being tested in a late-stage clinical trial, they said.Gonorrhea, caused by a bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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