{"id":5180,"date":"2025-07-09T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/doxy-pep-use-to-reduce-sexually-transmitted-disease-may-be-fueling-antibiotic-resistance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:03:33","slug":"doxy-pep-use-to-reduce-sexually-transmitted-disease-may-be-fueling-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/doxy-pep-use-to-reduce-sexually-transmitted-disease-may-be-fueling-antibiotic-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of antibiotic to reduce STIs appears to be fueling some antibiotic resistance, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Use of antibiotic to reduce STIs appears to be fueling some antibiotic resistance, research shows<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When several countries endorsed the notion of some high-risk people taking the antibiotic doxycycline after unprotected sex to lower their chances of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/06\/04\/cdc-final-guidelines-prophylactic-doxycycline-for-sti\/\">the U.S. did last year<\/a>, there was a theoretical concern the shift could drive antibiotic resistance in some bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<p>That risk no longer appears to be theoretical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/09\/doxy-pep-use-to-reduce-sexually-transmitted-disease-may-be-fueling-antibiotic-resistance\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/09\/doxy-pep-use-to-reduce-sexually-transmitted-disease-may-be-fueling-antibiotic-resistance\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of antibiotic to reduce STIs appears to be fueling some antibiotic resistance, research shows When several countries endorsed the notion of some high-risk people taking the antibiotic doxycycline after unprotected sex to lower their chances of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, as the U.S. did last year, there was a theoretical concern the shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1428,2179,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}