Doctors may be faced with the emergence of supergonorrhea in the world that does not respond to treatment. Izvestia writes about this.
Scientists warn that sexually transmitted infections can mutate and acquire resistance to antibiotics due to overconsumption of drugs during the coronavirus pandemic. In Russia, a program was carried out to determine the sensitivity of gonococci. The researchers came to the disappointing conclusion that the bacteria that cause gonorrhea have already shown high rates of resistance to synthetic antimicrobial agents and to the broad-spectrum antibiotic azithromycin.
Another cause for concern, doctors call the fact that during the period of self-isolation, people did not pay enough attention to diagnosis. “It is likely that after the end of the pandemic, we will face a number of advanced cases of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as their complications,” predicted Yana Nikitenko, obstetrician-gynecologist at the Medsi Clinical Diagnostic Center.
On February 15, a Russian scientist spoke about the new complexity of the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitals. According to Artemy Goncharov, extremely drug-resistant bacteria began to appear in hospitals, and patients admitted to coronavirus hospitals die not from the viral infection itself, but from bacterial complications that cannot be treated with antibiotics.
Earlier it was reported that the coronavirus pandemic could cause a sharp increase in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, as well as lead to massive outbreaks of infection of patients in hospitals with Candida auris. This mutated fungus in most cases leads to the death of patients in intensive care. Patients at greatest risk of infection are those with tubes for breathing and feeding, as well as various catheters.