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Manufacture of Oral Agent for Gonorrhea Resumes
The only CDC-recommended oral treatment for gonorrhea is available for the first time since 2002, when Wyeth Pharmaceuticals stopped making it.
According to a report in MMWR, Lupin Pharmaceuticals has resumed production of the drug, cefixime (Suprax). A single 400-mg tablet is suggested for uncomplicated gonorrhea infection.
Cefixime is the only recommended oral antimicrobial to which Neisseria gonorrhoeae has not developed resistance.
LINK(S):
MMWR article (Free)
MMWR article on cefixime discontinuation in 2002 (Free)
Published in Physician's First Watch April 25, 2008