H041

A recently identified strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that causes gonorrhoea, which is extremely resistant to cephalosporins (which are the last family of antibiotics still effective in treating gonorrhea).

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The A8806 strain shares some genetic similarities with H041, another antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea discovered in 2009 in a Japanese sex worker.

New Gonorrhea Strain in Australia Resistant to Antibiotics

gonorrhoeae strains, H041 and F89, they found that only 2 percent of the isolates had an MIC >0.

Cempra Inc.'s Solithromycin (CEM-101) Demonstrates In Vitro Activity Against Antibiotic-Resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Isolates

Thus far, only a handful of cases of the new, super-resistant strain have been found in Japan, but H041 is expected to spread and displace other strains.

Researchers fear a new, antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea will cause a global epidemic

The Japanese superbug, called H041, was isolated by Magnus Unemo at the orebro University Hospital in Sweden and reported this week in the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research meeting in Quebec, Canada.

The lungs in the rheumatic diseases

Experts are battling to discover a way of killing the new strain of the sexually transmitted infection, called H041.

Dr Magnus Unemo, who led the research team that discovered H041 in Japan, described the findings as "alarming".

Normal strains of the STI are easily treatable but the team's analysis of H041 found it was extremely resistant to all cephalosporin-class antibiotics - the last remaining drugs still effective against gonorrhea.

NOT A GONERRHEA; Threat as new superbug strain of STD resistant to antibiotics

For this strain, named H041, MIC of ceftriaxone was high (2 [micro]g/mL), and the strain was highly resistant to penicillin G (4 [micro]g/ mL), cefixime (8 [micro]g/mL), and levofloxacin (32 [micro]g/mL).

NG-MAST indicated that the strain H041 was ST4220 and contained the por2594 allele and the tbpB10 allele.

Ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Japan

The strain is being classified as: Gonorrhea strain H041.

'Superbug' Strain of Gonorrhea: Fact sheet

Experts yesterday announced they are battling to discover a way of killing the new strain of the sexually transmitted infection, called H041.

NOT A GONERRHEA; Threat as new superbug strain of STI resistant to antibiotics

First discovered in Japan, the H041 strain is resistant to the class of antibiotics, called cephalosporins, commonly used to treat the STD.