New antibiotic, closthioamide, effective against gonorrhea in laboratory studies: London researchers

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 700,000 people around the world die annually from drug resistant infections. It also listed drug resistant gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium, as a high priority infection that poses a great threat to human health. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when a strain of bacteria evolves to ["]

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