Gonorrhea, commonly known as a sexually transmitted infection (STI), can also affect the eyes in a condition known as gonococcal conjunctivitis. Signs of an eye infection include redness and pain ...

April 15, 2025 Gonorrhea is on the verge of being impossible to treat, but a new antibiotic may alter that course Only one reliable treatment for the sexually transmitted infection still exists ...

Gonorrhea is the second-most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the U.S. There were nearly 650,000 cases of gonorrhea reported in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin, on ...

Public health officials says they have found two cases of gonorrhea that appear to have reduced susceptibility to every kind of antibiotic available to treat them. It’s the first time strains of ...

Gonorrhea is caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and it’s one of the most commonly reported STIs worldwide. In 2023, there were over 600,000 documented cases of gonorrhea in the U.S ...

And gonorrhea rates continue to climb: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 1.6 million new cases each year, and half of those are resistant to antibiotics.

A highly drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea has been detected in the U.S. for the first time, raising concerns about scarce treatments and a future when gonorrhea could become untreatable.

A new class of antibiotic has been found to be safe and effective in treating gonorrhea in late-stage trials, according to a new study published Monday in The Lancet. The drug, called gepotidacin,… ...

Over more than 25 years, the C.D.C. lab archived about 50,000 gonorrhea samples — the largest collection in the world — which allow scientists to track how the pathogen has changed over time.