'High Frequency' of Azithromycin-Resistant Mutation Found in Syphilis

In The New England Journal of Medicine this week, clinicians warn that some strains of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis, have a mutation that makes them resistant to azithromycin.

'This is important because an increasing number of physicians are using azithromycin for treatment of patients with syphilis and for sexual contacts,' Dr. Sheila A. Lukehart, from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, told Reuters Health. Read more >>

Does someone prescribe Azithromycin in the V&D Departments in India?