US gonorrhea rate at record low, other STDs rise

A new government report on sexually spread diseases shows gonorrhea in the United States has dipped to the lowest rate ever recorded.
But chlamydia (KLAH'–mid–ee–ah) and syphilis infections continued to increase last year. That's according to a report released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency says there are roughly 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases annually.

Gonorrhea: How Your Diet Plays a Role

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by Neisseria Gonorrhea, a bacterium that can grow and multiply easily in warm and moist areas of the reproductive tract in women and men. The bacterium can also grow in the mouth, throat, eyes, and anus. Gonorrhea is spread through contact with the penis, vagina, mouth, or anus, and it can also spread from mother to baby during delivery.

Gonorrhea Drifting Toward Cephalosporin Resistance

Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains are showing a worrisome drift in susceptibility to cephalosporins, causing experts to warn that the bacterium is only a step away from acquiring high-level resistance that would render ineffective the current first-line antimicrobials.

That development could have disastrous consequences since cephalosporins are the last remaining class of antimicrobial agents that are highly effective against N. gonorrhoeae...

Screening in the ED Identifies Men With Chlamydia and Gonorrhea

A new study suggests that screening men for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in an emergency department setting may be an effective way to test men who might otherwise go untreated, and may help prevent the infection of others, according to research presented here at the American Society for Clinical Pathology 2010 Annual Meeting.