Scientists predict the emergence of a supergonorrhea mutant due to the coronavirus pandemic

Doctors may be faced with the appearance in the world of super-gonorrhea that does not respond to treatment. Izvestia writes about this.

Scientists warn that sexually transmitted infections can mutate and acquire antibiotic resistance 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 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 neglected cases of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as their complications,” predicted the obstetrician-gynecologist of the Medsi Clinical Diagnostic Center Yana Nikitenko.

On February 15, a Russian scientist spoke about the new complexity of treating 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 who have breathing and feeding tubes and various catheters inserted into their bodies.

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