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CDC: Gonorrhea Treatment May Be Losing Effectiveness

Posted on September 27, 2016

Blog: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that gonorrhea treatment may be losing effectiveness. For the first time in the United States, health officials have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that shows both decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone and very high-level resistance to azithromycin. Ceftriaxone and azithromycin are the two drugs that […]

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