Failure rate of antibiotic treatment for gonorrhea documented
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
In an examination of the effectiveness of cefixime, the only oral cephalosporin antimicrobial recommended for treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea) infections, researchers found a clinical treatment failure rate of nearly 7 percent for patients treated at a clinic in Toronto.