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azithromycin's current effectiveness for treatment?
With the recent CDC announcement about gonorrhea and it's resistance to certain antibiotics, i was wondering if one of the dr's could comment on the 'current' efficacy of the 2 gram single dose of azithromycin? Is this still an effective regiment for gonorrhea and / or chlamydia, NGU, etc.? Are there particular cases or reasons for the patients where this treatment has started to fail? Thank you.
current recommendations are you get the shot of ceftriaxone and oral azithromycin at the same time if you test + for gonorrhea. the 2 gm dose of azithromycin alone is only helpful for chlamydia at this point, not gonorrhea. if you were given just oral treatment for gonorrhea, you are supposed to retest any time after 1 week post treatment to see if it was effective or not.
why does it fail? because the gonorrhea bacteria has evolved to be resistant to almost all the antibiotics we used to be able to use for it.
grace
why does it fail? because the gonorrhea bacteria has evolved to be resistant to almost all the antibiotics we used to be able to use for it.
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