{"id":684,"date":"2015-08-12T12:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=684"},"modified":"2015-08-12T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:44:39","slug":"sexually-transmitted-diseases-treatment-guidelines-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New guideline by MMWR in June 2015, reviewing most important topics in STD. This guideline is very comprehensive and answers several critical questions regarding current and future therapy and focuses on STD.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mycoplasma genitalium, is more common than N. gonorrhoeae but less common than C. trachomatis. in case of <\/span>Urethritis and Cervicitis, the 7-day doxycycline regimen recommended for treatment\u00a0 of urethritis is largely ineffective against\u00a0 M. genitalium\u00a0 with\u00a0 a median cure rate of approximately 31% . The\u00a0 1-g single dose of azithromycin was significantly more effective against\u00a0 M. genitalium\u00a0 than doxycycline in two randomized\u00a0 urethritis treatment trials, and is preferred over\u00a0 doxycycline. However, resistance to azithromycin appears to\u00a0 be rapidly emerging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/rr6403a1.htm\">Link to Guideline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New guideline by MMWR in June 2015, reviewing most important topics in STD. This guideline is very comprehensive and answers several critical questions regarding current and future therapy and focuses on STD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infectious-disease","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}