Have the growing reports about doxycycline resistance in gonorrhea isolates from patients prescribed doxy PEP for prevention of bacterial STIs influenced your use of doxycycline for this indication?
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Infectious Disease · University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD
No, they have not. For 2-3 decades, the prevalence of tetracycline resistance in N. gonorrhoeae worldwide, including the US and Western Europe, has been too high to rely on doxycycline or other tetracyclines in treating gonorrhea. The rise in prevalence of tetracycline resistance in MSM, the main po...