Because of this, an infected individual can unwittingly transmit it to others during oral, vaginal, or anal sex. Studies have ...

A woman in her 50s died from a rare complication of the bacterial STI this spring, the latest in a recent spike of similar ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Gonorrhea is treated with antibiotics. The recommended antibiotic for uncomplicated ...

The increase in tetM prevalence in 2020 coincided with the shift away from azithromycin and toward doxycycline for treatment ...

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its 2022 STI surveillance report, it was far from a clean bill of health for the US. In particular, it was bad news for syphilis ...

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 ...

What you need to know about STDs. Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and herpes. Debunking myths about sexually transmitted infections.

Taking a common antibiotic after sex greatly reduces the chances of developing syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea among men who have sex with men and among trans women.

A review and meta-analysis of data from 51 countries shows median tetracycline resistance in the bacterium that causes ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has greenlit the first test for chlamydia and gonorrhea that will allow users to collect samples at home. After HIV, this is the first FDA-authorized test that ...

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

Doctors are alarmed over a new strain of gonorrhea — a common sexually transmitted infection — that is almost incurable. And gonorrhea rates continue to climb: The Centers for Disease Control ...