A troubling strain of gonorrhea was identified for the first time in the U.S.
A strain of gonorrhea that's resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics recently infected two people in Massachusetts, the state's Department of Public Health announced Thursday . This is the first time that"resistance or reduced response to five classes of antibiotics has been identified in gonorrhea in the United States," the department reported.
Sexually transmitted disease clinics across the U.S. regularly monitor for resistant strains of N. gonorrhoeae by testing the bugs' response to seven different antibiotics; these include drugs currently and previously used to treat gonorrhea. In one of the Massachusetts residents, officials detected a strain that's resistant to three of those drugs and shows a"reduced susceptibility" to three others, including ceftriaxone, they reported in an alert to clinicians.
However, the cases still raise a concern because this is the first N. gonorrhoeae strain detected in the U.S. that shows resistance or reduced susceptibility to six out of the seven antibiotics regularly screened, CBS reported .—Bacteria hiding in indoor dust could spread antibiotic resistanceThe Massachusetts Department of Public Health is now investigating whether others in the state have caught the same strain.
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