Potential new antibiotic for gonorrhoea as superbugs rise

Study suggests that gepotidacin – which is taken as a pill – may help treat cases and could potentially help to alleviate the threat of treatment-resistant gonorrhoea infections

Experts discovered that gepotidacin, an antibiotic currently used to treat urinary tract infections, can also treat gonorrhoea.

Scientists have found the first new antibiotic treatment for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea since the 1990s.

Experts discovered that gepotidacin, an antibiotic currently used to treat urinary tract infections, can also treat gonorrhoea.