Fertility 恐れるs as health 専門家s 警告する gonorrhoea may soon become incurable

By CLAIRE BATES
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STI awareness: Gonorrhoea can make it painful for men and women to urinate

STI 認識／意識性: Gonorrhoea can make it painful for men and women to urinate

Health 専門家s are 警告 of the 'very real 脅し' that gonorrhoea could become incurable.

The sexually transmitted 感染 (STI) - the second most ありふれた in the UK - has developed 抵抗 to a type of 抗生物質 that has only been used to 扱う／治療する it for the last five years.

This 'alarming 減少（する）' in the 有効性 of cefixime means a new, stronger 治療 政権 must be put in place, the Health 保護 機関 (HPA) said.

In some 事例／患者s, 患者s have not 答える／応じるd to 治療 on cefixime.

Lab 実験（する）s showed the 感染 had a 減ずるd susceptibility in 17.4 per cent of 事例／患者s in 2010, compared to 10.6 per cent in 2009.

In 2005, there were no 事例／患者s 報告（する）／憶測d as having 減ずるd susceptibility to the 抗生物質.

HPA 専門家s say the STI has been 平易な to 扱う／治療する for the last 70 years but the organism that 原因（となる）s the 感染 - Neisseria gonorrhoeae - has an 'unusual ability to adapt itself' and has 伸び（る）d 抵抗 to a growing 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 抗生物質s, from penicillin to tetracyclines, ciprofloxacin and now cefixime.

性の health doctors are now 存在 told to use a combination of two 麻薬s - ceftriaxone, a more powerful 抗生物質 than cefixime, which is 配達するd by 注射, and azithromycin, which is given orally.

Professor Cathy Ison, a gonorrhoea 専門家 at the HPA, said: 'Our lab 実験（する）s have shown a 劇の 削減 in the sensitivity of the 麻薬 we were using as the main 治療 for gonorrhoea.

'This 現在のs the very real 脅し of untreatable gonorrhoea in the 未来.

GONORRHOEA

Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted 感染 原因（となる）d by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Over 16,000 new 事例／患者s of gonorrhoea were 報告（する）／憶測d in the UK in 2010. Men and women 老年の 16-24 are most 影響する／感情d.

Symptoms, such as 苦痛 urinating, usually appear a few weeks after 契約ing the 病気.

The 反対／詐欺d ition is 診断するd 経由で a urine 実験（する） for men and a cervix swab for women.

It is 扱う／治療するd with 抗生物質s given as a pill or an 注射.

If left untreated long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 it can spread to a woman's reproductive 組織／臓器s and 原因（となる） pelvic inflammatory 病気. This in turn can lead to ectopic pregnancy and infertility.

If left untreated in men it can 原因（となる） a painful 感染 in the testicles and prostate （分泌する為の）腺, which can lead to 減ずるd fertility.

'We were so worried by the results we were seeing that we recommended that 指導基準s on the 治療 of gonorrhoea were 改訂するd in May this year, to recommend a more 効果的な 麻薬.

'But this won't solve the problem, as history tells us that 抵抗 to this therapy will develop too.

'In the absence of any new 代案／選択肢 治療s for when this happens, we will 直面する a 状況／情勢 where gonorrhoea cannot be cured.

'Many 患者s may feel anxious about having an 注射, but this is now the best way of 避けるing 治療 失敗. 患者s who 辞退する the jab will be 申し込む／申し出d oral 抗生物質s instead.

'This 最高潮の場面s the importance of practising 安全な sex, as, if new 抗生物質 治療s can't be 設立する, this will be the only way of controlling this 感染 in the 未来.'

Terrence Higgins 信用's 臨床の director, Jason Warriner, said: 'It's worrying that gonorrhoea has developed 抵抗 to 確かな 麻薬s in a 比較して short period of time. We're pleased to see health 専門家s 速く bringing 今後 changes in 治療 and continuously 監視するing the 状況／情勢 to 確実にする the 感染 continues to be treatable.

'Gonorrhoea doesn't always 現在の symptoms so it's 決定的な that people and their partners have 正規の／正選手 審査s for it, と一緒に other STIs, ーするために get 扱う／治療するd at the earliest possible 行う／開催する／段階. The only way to 妨げる STIs is to use condoms.'

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