EAGLE-1 trial data shows gepotidacin’s potential in treating gonorrhoea, for which no new antibiotics have been approved ...

The University of Cambridge–based DioSynVax and Singapore's ACM Biolabs have signed a deal to jointly develop a ...

In Kenyan children who received azithromycin after hospital discharge, the presence of a macrolide-resistance gene was tied ...

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For uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea, gepotidacin, which inhibits bacterial DNA replication, is noninferior to ceftriaxone ...

Typhoid fever might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have been around for millennia, is still very much a danger in our modern world.

A new study published in the journal of The Lancet showed that, with no new safety issues, gepotidacin showed no inferiority ...

An antibiotic that is commonly used for urinary tract infections effectively treated gonorrhoea, and may even work against ...

A new antibiotic could zap super gonorrhoea, a treatment-resistant strain of the STI which is increasing in the UK. Gepotidacin, which is taken as a pill, is already used to treat urinary tract ...

In 2019–23, 628 participants (mean age 33·8 years [SD 10·6]) were randomly allocated to either gepotidacin or ceftriaxone with azithromycin. In the primary analysis of the 406 participants in the ...

The other participants were provided with the current standard treatment of administering a single dose of the antibiotic ceftriaxone as an injection paired with orally taking the antibiotic ...

The patient ignored her symptoms until she almost collapsed in a parking lot. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “Your blood count is dangerously low,” the doctor said over the phone. “I’m sending an ...