Changes reflect increasing antibiotic resistance for some infections and new treatment options for others. The CDC has issued a new set of sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment guidelines ...

Trachoma, a chronic conjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis ... is recommended, including antibiotics for treatment of infection. Trachoma is a disease of entire communities, and the ...

Cases of the STD have shot up from 6,862 in 2002 to 203,500 ... susceptible due to weakened immune systems. Penicillin is used to treat infections caused by bacteria, such as meningitis, pneumonia ...

The focus of public health officials now is treatment as a ... the U.S., a commonly used antibiotic docycycline, nicknamed doxy-PEP, is being used to avert chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis ...