Tag: gonorrhoea

A woman was diagnosed with gonorrhoea after she noticed blemishes on her hands. The unnamed patient was treated by doctors after turning up at A&E with blisters on her wrist and fingers. After experts got to the bottom of the problem, the 20-year-old made a full recovery. The patient visited the University of Texas Southwestern

Gonorrhoea is the second most commonly notified sexually transmitted infection across the EU/EEA countries with almost 500 000 reported cases between 2007 and 2016. The infection is treatable but Neisseria gonorrhoeae keep showing high levels of azithromycin resistance according to latest results of the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme. This antibiotic agent is part of

Mark King has had the clap so many times he’s renamed it ‘the applause’. The first time King had gonorrhoea, he was a teenager in the late 1970s, growing up with his five siblings in Louisiana. He had the telltale signs: burning and discomfort when he urinated and a thick discharge that left a stain