Oxford University, 12 July 2016 With drug-resistant strains of sexually-transmitted infection gonorrhoea increasing, scientists from Brighton, Oxford University and Public Health England have found that genetic sequencing can track the spread of infection. They show coordinated national and international strategies are required to stop drug-resistance spreading further. Their study, funded by the...
May 2016
Responding to antimicrobial resistant gonorrhoea in the community, SA Health have updated their gonococcal treatment guidelines.
The updated Gonorrhoea diagnosis and management guidelines from SA Health can be found here
nam, 12 February 2015
A small pilot study using a daily dose of the antibiotic doxycycline as pre-exposure prophylaxis against sexually transmitted infections has found that a group of HIV-positive gay men taking doxycycline was more than 70% less likely to be infected with an STI than men given financial incentives to avoid STIs, a significant difference.
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