Scientists sound alarm over little-known STI in US resistant to EVERY antibiotic used against it - Daily Mail

gen, has become resistant to every antibiotic used to treat it so far.

The sexually transmitted infection was first discovered in London in the 1980s — but a test has only been available in the US since 2019. It means scientists are unsure exactly how widespread it is.

gen will become more common as STIs on the whole soar in the US. In 2021 there were a record 2.5million infections, up from 2.4million in 2020, itself an all-time high.

gen, causes serious symptoms including infertility, but is resistant to four different types of antibiotics.

gen., is a sexually transmitted disease. .

It is more common in young people and also in people who have unprotected sex and who have multiple sexual partners (though this is true for all STIs).

‘Doing something about it is not easy as the infection is pretty common and most infections do not cause adverse health outcomes.'.

But many people will show no symptoms at all and can carry it for years without realizing. .

gen becomes completely resistant to antibiotics.

This means it will continue to become more dominant, and doctors will continue to prescribe antibiotics to treat it, fueling antibiotic resistance and the potential for M.

The rate of chlamydia, the most common STI in the US, has been climbing for over 30 years.

It claimed common infections, such as chlamydia, will become killers without immediate solutions to the growing crisis.

Bacteria can become drug resistant when people take incorrect doses of antibiotics or if they are given out unnecessarily. .

Around 700,000 people already die yearly due to drug-resistant infections including tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malaria across the world. .

Concerns have repeatedly been raised that medicine will be taken back to the 'dark ages' if antibiotics are rendered ineffective in the coming years.

In addition to existing drugs becoming less effective, there have only been one or two new antibiotics developed in the last 30 years.

Because the test, known as the Aptima nucleic acid amplification test was only approved in 2019, it has not been rolled out widely and doctors do not need to report cases of the infection.

By contrast, the most common STI in the US is chlamydia, with 5 per cent of sexually active women aged 14-24 infected with the STI

If common antibiotics do not work, doctors can use moxifloxacin

Just a handful of specialized research centers can test whether the infection is resistant to an antibiotic

Widely available versions of the test could take years, as could antibiotics that work

Meanwhile, during the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conference for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases on Monday, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors David Harvey said the rise in STIs was ‘out of control’