HEALTH 14 August 2023 By ISSAM AHMED, AFP A bottle of Doxycycline Hyclate. (AFP) The United States is set to roll out a powerful new weapon in the long fight against sexually transmitted infections: a decades-old antibiotic repurposed as a preventative pill. DoxyPEP, or doxycycline used as a post-exposure prophylaxis, has been found to significantly cut...
by Burnet Institute Higher relative abundance of bacterial LDH in women with a Lactobacillus-dominated microbiome. The vaginal microbiome composition of 113 young women from Cape Town, South Africa, was determined using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, and participants were classified as being bacterial vaginosis (BV) negative, positive, or intermediate (Int) using Nugent-BV criteria. Proteins were identified...
New diseases emerge all the time, and sexually transmitted infections are no exception. Here are four bacteria that could become serious public health threats. (Warning: contains a description of animal auto-fellatio.) 1. Neisseria meningitidis N. meningitidis can cause invasive meningitis, a potentially deadly infectionof the brain and spinal cord’s protective membranes. More commonly, it’s gaining...
