REPORTED cases of neisseria gonorrhoeae infection resistant to azithromycin have almost tripled according to a new report from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
The Commission's National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) gave some alarming statistics with 47% of all reports in the six-month period Apr to Sep 2017 attributed to the highly resistant organism, a rise of 182% to 342 cases.
The report explained that at this stage N. gonnorrhoeae is still susceptible to ceftriaxone.
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