Unemo said however that experience from previous degrees of resistance acquired by gonorrhea suggested this new multi-drug resistant strain could spread around the world within decades.”Based on the historical data … resistance has emerged and spread internationally within 10 to 20 years,” he said.Asked whether a class of drugs called carbapenems — known as the most powerful antibiotics yet devised — might be a last ditch option for treating this new gonorrhea strain, Unemo said there would first need to be trials to assess their potential.”Carbapenems have never been used for the treatment of gonorrhea so we cannot interpret the data in any reliable or quality-assured way at the moment,” he said.
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