Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital
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Head of the Diabetes Immunology Group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP, Badalona) and associate professor of Immunology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital and president-elect of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research
Head of the Infectious Diseases Service at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital and senior researcher at the AIDS Research Institute (IrsiCaixa).
One oral dose of zoliflodacin—a new antibiotic—is as effective as the current treatment for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial published in The Lancet. In some parts of the world, the bacteria that cause gonorrhoea have developed resistance to the current treatment, which combines an injection of ceftriaxone and an oral dose of azithromycin. Zoliflodacin could be an alternative to this treatment, concludes the study, which included 900 people from five countries.
The Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for describing how the immune system is regulated so as not to harm us. His groundbreaking discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance have spurred the development of new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has analysed the effectiveness of the antiviral drug Paxlovid after implantation of the omicron variant. The relative risk of severe disease decreased markedly in patients over 65 years of age, both vaccinated and unvaccinated. No differences were found in those under 65 years of age.
A study published today in The Lancet examines the clinical manifestations of monkeypox in 181 patients at three sexual health clinics in Madrid and Barcelona.