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Drug-Resistant Diarrhea Found Among Gay And Bisexual Men

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Montreal and Seattle, while on opposite sides of North America have seen a cluster of drug-resistant bacteria called Campylobacter coli among men who have sex with men.

HIV Plus reports: “Campylobacter is one of the most common causes of diarrhea around the world. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it impacts 1.3 million people in the United States every year. People usually recover without treatment, but for those with serious cases, antibiotics are used. However, this new strain is resistant to those antibiotics.”

“Enteric infections can be sexually-transmitted infections,” Greninger said in a release. “The international spread of related isolates among MSM populations has been shown before for Shigella, so it makes sense to see it in Campylobacter, as well.”

Men who have sex with men, specifically, are at higher risk of multidrug-resistance because they’re more likely to have taken antibiotics to treat past STIs, the authors state.

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