All Neisseria gonorrhoeae articles
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NewsBiomedical Sciences researcher receives nearly $7 million in federal grants to fight STIs
Cynthia Nau Cornelissen, a Distinguished University Professor and associate director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received nearly $7 million in two, five-year federal grants to develop vaccines and therapeutics to combat sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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NewsWHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide
One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report.
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NewsResearchers use generative AI to design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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NewsNew antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug triggers suicide mechanism
Researchers have discovered a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea.
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NewsPart of the GBHSH community in Spain uses doxycycline to prevent STIs
Researchers have carried out the first study in Spain on the use of DoxyPEP as a preventive strategy among the gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBHSH) community in Spain.
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NewsActive substance identified for the prevention of chlamydial infections
Scientists screening active substances have identified pentamidine as potential prophylaxis against bacterial sexually transmitted diseases.
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NewsSurge in gonorrhoea cases in Denmark: up by 46% between 2021 and 2022
An observed rise in gonorrhoea cases particularly affected younger women and men who have sex with women, indicating a potential shift in infection and transmissibility dynamics across the country.
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NewsCARB-X funds Visby Medical to develop a portable rapid diagnostic for gonorrhea
Visby Medical aims to improve patients’ health outcomes and increase the lifespan of the last remaining antibiotic for resistant gonorrhea.
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NewsUnlikely ally: sex hormones help gonorrhea fight off antimicrobials and antibiotics
Hormones of the human urogenital tract allow gonorrhea to make and use more pumps to push the killing chemicals out of its cells, fighting intrinsic antimicrobials and prescribed antibiotics.
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NewsNew way to count microbes speeds research and cuts waste
Researchers have developed a new way of counting microorganisms that works as much as 36 times faster than conventional methods, cuts plastic use and decreases the cost and carbon footprint of biomedical research.
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NewsMembrane electrical potential influences antibiotic tolerance in bacteria
The electrical potential across the bacterial cell envelope indicates when bacteria no longer operate as individual cells but as a collective, according to researchers at the University of Cologne’s Institute for Biological Physics.