This bug deserves a big round of applause and not just because it’s nicknamed “The Clap”. Check out this week’s episode to gasp in wonder at the tricks that Neisseria gonorrhoeae uses to tiptoe past your immune system. Then prepare to cringe at some old-timey treatments for the disease while we trace the history of this ancient pathogen. Finally, make sure you have a quarantini or placeborita in hand for when we chat about the not-so-cheery outlook for this particular sexually-transmitted infection. Believe us, this is one episode you’re not gonn(orrhe)a want to miss.
| History | Biology |
| Oriel, J. David. The scars of Venus: a history of venereology. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. | Unemo, Magnus, and Robert A. Nicholas. “Emergence of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and untreatable gonorrhea.” Future microbiology 7.12 (2012): 1401-1422. |
| Harrison, L. W., and G. J. Houghton. “Preliminary note on the Treatment of Gonorrhoea with Heated Bougies.” BMJ Military Health 148.3 (2002): 274-275. | Tuite, Ashleigh R., et al. “Estimated impact of screening on gonorrhea epidemiology in the United States: insights from a mathematical model.” Sexually transmitted diseases 45.11 (2018): 713-722. |
| First-hand account: https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/louisa.html | Jerse, Ann E., Margaret C. Bash, and Michael W. Russell. “Vaccines against gonorrhea: current status and future challenges.” Vaccine 32.14 (2014): 1579-1587. |
| WHO press release, “Antibiotic Resistant gonorrhea on the Rise, New Drugs Needed” July 2017 | |
| Gottlieb, Sami L., and Christine Johnston. “Future prospects for new vaccines against sexually transmitted infections.” Current opinion in infectious diseases 30.1 (2017): 77. |
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