Correction to "Resistant Form of Gonorrhea Gains Foothold"

The PNU's March 10 summary of the Boston Globe's March 10 article "Resistant Form of Gonorrhea Gains Foothold" omitted the information that gonorrhea first became resistant to penicillin, then to tetracycline. Physicians next turned to fluoroquinolones, chiefly ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin. Now, clinics with a high volume of gonorrhea patients have largely stopped prescribing drugs such as ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin and are instead treating gonorrhea with ceftriaxone. On March 11, the Boston Globe issued a correction to the original article, noting that "in explaining why gonorrhea patients are more likely to transmit or contract HIV, the story did not make clear that there are inflammatory lesions inside sexual organs, not external sores."

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