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04-12-2007, 09:45 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gonorrhea in the United States is now resistant to all but one class of antibiotic drugs, threatening doctors' ability to treat the common sexually transmitted disease, officials said on Thursday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will no longer recommend antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to combat the bacterial disease because of the emergence of drug-resistant strains in recent years that thwart them.
The CDC said there is no indication the bacterium that causes gonorrhea is becoming resistant to the remaining class of antibiotics it recommends, known as cephalosporins.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will no longer recommend antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to combat the bacterial disease because of the emergence of drug-resistant strains in recent years that thwart them.
The CDC said there is no indication the bacterium that causes gonorrhea is becoming resistant to the remaining class of antibiotics it recommends, known as cephalosporins.
more...
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-04-12T211053Z_01_N12341058_RTRUKOC_0_US-GONORRHEA-USA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
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Better wrap that rascal!