By Landon Gray
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has detected a novel strain of gonorrhea in a Massachusetts resident with observed reduced response to multiple antibiotics, in addition to another case with genetic markers that indicate a similar drug response, according to a press release.
This is the first instance of resistance or reduced response to five classes of antibiotics being identified in gonorrhea in the United States.
The cases were detected by MDPH’s State