A WOMAN died after an untreated STI invaded her body and attacked her vital organs. The unnamed woman from Alaska, who was in ...

An anonymous Alaska woman in her 50s has died after a rare and severe complication of an STI, health officials report. The ...

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"The reality is simple: gonorrhoea is common, rising fast, and becoming more difficult to treat. We need every weapon we can ...

An Alaskan woman has died after developing an 'uncommon, but severe, complication of untreated gonorrhea', with warnings ...

Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) is a rare but severe complication of untreated gonorrhea (GC). It occurs when the sexually transmitted pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae invades the bloodstream ...

The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea, has progressively developed resistance to most classes of antibiotics used to treat these infections, including ceftriaxone, a widely ...

Disclosures Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2009;7 (7):821-834. Origins of AMR in N. gonorrhoeae An understanding of the basic biology of N. gonorrhoeae helps explain how AMR may arise in the gonococcus.

Broadly, resistance determinants in N. gonorrhoeae may be located chromosomally (the basis for the majority of gonococcal AMR), extra-chromosomally on plasmids or both simultaneously.

Since the rollout of the conjugate MenC vaccine in 2001 and the MenACWY in 2018, rates of invasive meningococcal disease have ...

There was no record of the woman being tested for gonorrhea in the year prior to her death, an official bulletin said.

She says the bacteria got into his bloodstream, and he passed within a few days of symptoms. DHEC reports there have been 12 cases of Neisseria meningitidis in South Carolina over the last 1.5 years.