"The ongoing progression of antibiotic resistance has now been combined with a lack of alternatives. Gonorrhea is becoming harder and in some cases impossible to treat with antibiotics, the World Health Organization said. Hook III, an expert on sexually transmitted diseases and a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham medical school. "The bacterium has steadily evolved to be less susceptible to the antibiotics used for treatment," said Dr. So why has it taken so long for scientists to come up with a new treatment? Researchers hope that the drug will be available to the public by 2023 - the first new drug to treat drug-resistant gonorrhea in over two decades. In November, the last phase of the single-dose antibiotic trials took place, involving 650 people in Thailand, South Africa, the U.S.
biotech company, to speed up the development of the new drug, zoliflodacin. THURSDAY, J(HealthDay News)In an alarming development, British public health experts have confirmed a case of throat gonorrhea that proved untreatable with the standard antibiotic regimen. To buy time, the CDC this week changed a recommended U.S. With the world using the last viable batch of antibiotics to treat gonorrhea, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, a drug resistance initiative, has partnered with Entasis Therapeutics, a U.S. An alarming worldwide rise in resistance even to these last-ditch drugs raises the specter of untreatable gonorrhea.