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Possible 'Superbug' Status for Gonorrhea

 

ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — The rise of multidrug resistance in gonorrhoea-causing bacteria is threatening to make this sexually-transmitted infection extremely difficult to treat. Professor Catherine Ison, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh, highlighted the very real possibility that strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae resistant to all current treatment options could emerge in the near future.

 

Possible 'superbug' status for gonorrhea

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