Azithromycin is a versatile antibiotic used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections, including those affecting the ...

STD Testing Clinics examined news reports, academic research, and government data to explain why STI rates in the United ...

Most cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI ... in England that were resistant to the antibiotic ceftriaxone, the first option drug used to treat the condition in the UK.

DoxyPEP is a new strategy for preventing STIs that involves taking a dose of doxycycline, a common and well-tolerated antibiotic ... use may have affected risk of acquiring STIs. They found that ...

The early rollout of doxyPEP — a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline after sex — has contributed to a decline in sexually transmitted infections in Northern California, according to a pair of studies ...

Roche has obtained U.S. government green lights allowing its point-of-care testing system to be used to screen for multiple ...

Quarterly syphilis rates decreased from 1.7% prior to doxyPEP availability to 0.3% afterward, while quarterly chlamydia rates declined from 9.6% to 2%. Quarterly gonorrhea infections dropped from 10.2 ...

The team then looked at STI test results before and ... including whether frequent use of doxycycline could lead to increased antibiotic resistance among STIs, researchers noted.

Testing new antibiotics in India, South Africa, or Brazil, where they are needed most, makes scientific sense. But it’s not ...

While the latest data show signs the STI ... antibiotics for gonorrhea treatment, point to the need to closely track the development of antimicrobial resistance in the context of doxy PEP use ...