Researchers Develop New Drugs for Diseases Gonorrhoea

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Information from a recent study conducted in Canada, venereal disease gonorrhea or gonorrhea are becoming increasingly resistant to multiple antibiotics are available, including the last antibiotic used to treat bacterial.

In a study that followed 300 gonorrhea-infected individuals Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the researchers found the rate of failure in the treatment, as reported by one media News24, Friday (01/11/2013)

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae that infect the inner lining of the urethra, cervix, rectum, throat, and the whites of the eye (conjunctiva).

Gonorrhea can spread through the bloodstream to other parts of the body, especially the skin and joints. In women, gonorrhea can spread to and infect the genital tract lining in the hips causing hip pain and reproductive problems.

Almost 7 percent of people treated with cefixime, recent antibiotic available untukgonorrhoeae.

"Gonorrhoeae bacteria that is phenomenal in its ability to mutate rapidly, and we no longer have the option to heal," said study author Dr. Vanessa Allen, a medical microbiologist with Public Health Ontario in Toronto.

"We have to start thinking about how to give antibiotics to cure the illness," he said

"We were lucky, for some time, we have to care gonorrhoeae simple, cheap and effective, in a single dose," said Dr. Robert Kirkcaldy, expert epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"But now we have run out of treatment options, and there is a possibility that gonorrhoeaetidak will be treated. This is a serious public health crisis in the world," he explained.

The Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC) are so worried that the agency issued new recommendations for the treatment of August last year. CDC advised doctors to stop using cefixime to treat gonorrhea.

Instead, patients can use the antibiotic ceftriaxone injection. Ceftriaxone is an antibiotic that has the same content as cefixime. CDC has also recommended the doctor to monitor the patient so that they can ensure that the treatment is working.

"Gonorrhoeae is a very common infection reported in the United States. More than 320,000 cases occurred in 2011. Experts suspect that the actual number of infections due to numbers approaching 700,000 this infection often has no specific symptoms," said Kirkcaldy.

If left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to infertility in both men and women and increase a person's vulnerability to HIV.

It can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, which makes the female reproductive tract tissues at risk of ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy outside the uterus).

According to the CDC, gonorrhea in women can not be treated. especially in pregnant women can cause eye infections or even blindness in newborns.

"Gonorrhoeae also resistant to sulfonamides, penicillin, tetracycline, and fluoroquinolones," according to Kirkcaldy.

Researchers in Japan began to see the resistance of cefixime due infeksigonorrhoeae reviewed nearly 300 cases.

From that sample, 133 cases will be retested. Nine people (6.8%) were found resistant to cefixime. Ceftriaxone and cefixime remember if it was from the same antibiotics, Allen said that ceftriaxone is an alternative treatment of patients.

"We need to prevent this disease gonorrhoeae. And that means we need new treatment options," he said.

"We need to research and invest to develop new drugs and new drug combinations," he added.

The researchers did not stop for anyone notices advised to use condoms consistently and correctly. Talk with your doctor about the dangerous disease caused by sexual intercourse to reduce the likelihood of disease spread to your partner you are already infected, and more enterprising kelaminya care.

Source / Original article: The results of this study were published on 9 January in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (FIT / IGW).

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