Medicine
Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Quick fact
Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to every class of antibiotic previously recommended for treatment, including sulfonamides, penicillins, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, and most recently, the last-line oral antibiotic cefixime.
Why this is interesting
The bacterium that causes gonorrhea has defeated almost every antibiotic we have ever thrown at it. Why does it keep winning?