Gonorrhea which antibiotics do not work is increasing in China

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"Gonorrhea (rinse)"Is a sexually transmitted disease with a relatively high infection frequency and it is known that it does not naturally cure and it is known that there is a danger of severe dysfunction such as epididymitis in men and women with peritonitis if left unattended. Regarding gonorrhea, the most common sexually transmitted disease that infects 78 million people every year around the world, it is said that bacteria resistant to two kinds of antibiotics frequently used in the current medical field are increasing in China It was confirmed.

Susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to azithromycin and ceftriaxone in China: A retrospective study of national surveillance data from 2013 to 2016
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002499

Untreatable gonorrhea is on the rise in China - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16975556/gonorrhea-std-untreatable-antibiotic-resistance-china-us

For treatment of gonorrheaAzithromycinWhenCeftriaxonTwo types of antibiotics are used. Studies on the sensitivity of gonorrhoea causing gonorrhea by a research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that the proportion of bacteria resistant to these two antibiotics continues to increase.

Researchers used Neisseria gonorrhoeae collected from 3849 patients infected with gonorrhea in 7 different provinces across China from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2016,Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)We tested resistance to antibiotics.

As a result, it was found that about 19% of patients with gonorrhea are resistant to azithromycin and about 11% are resistant to ceftriaxone. It was also confirmed that the percentage of gonococci resistant to both azithromycin and ceftriaxone increased from 1.9% in 2013 to 3.3% in 2016.


On the fact that resistance to gonococcal antibiotics is increasing, Vanessa Allen of the Department of Medicine and Microbiology at the Public Health Ontario in the US said, "Ceftriaxon is the latest antibiotic, currently an alternative to Ceftriaxone There is no medicine, which means that the speed of bacterial activity is above the pace of development of safe and effective antibiotics. "The figures presented in this study are of great concern It is pointed out.

Although the fact that gonorrhea which antibiotics do not work in China is increasing has become clear, this phenomenon is not limited to China. The gonorrhea that occurred in the United States in 2016 reached 469,000 cases and the fact that resistance to antibiotics is increasing alsoIt has been confirmedAnd that. "What will happen next if new antibiotics are not developed? It is truly uncertain," Allen said.