If you have any symptoms, get a check-up with a health professional as soon as possible. Experiencing the symptoms listed below doesn’t necessarily mean you have gonorrhoea, but they can be associated with the condition. If symptoms do occur, they usually develop a few days or within a week after transmission. Vaginal gonorrhoea is asymptomatic in 80% of cases, but urethral gonorrhoea in the penis shows symptoms in 85-90% of cases. Anal and throat infections of gonorrhoea are asymptomatic in most people. People often don’t know they have an infection because they may have no symptoms. Increasing resistance to first-line treatment is being monitored closely and alternative antibiotics are available for treatment if needed. These cases were highly resistant to all the antibiotics routinely used to treat gonorrhoea. There have been 2 cases of multi-drug resistant gonorrhoea detected in Australia.
Gonorrhoea notifications have increased in Australia, particularly in women and men who have sex with men. Transmission can occur from fingers and sex toys during sex play. It most commonly affects the genitals, anus, and throat, and can also infect the eyes.
It can be passed on during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Gonorrhoea is a common STI caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Gonorrhoea has been increasing, with rapid rises in some locations, and there were over 5,000 notifications in Queensland in 2021.Gonorrhoea can often occur without symptoms and is easy to test for in a urine sample or swab from the urethra, vagina, cervix, throat, or anus.Gonorrhoea most commonly infects the urethra and the cervix but can also infect the anus and throat.Gonorrhoea is a common sexually transmissible infection (STI) that can be cured with antibiotics.
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