What is different about this new strain?
Testing of the new H041 strain has revealed that it is resistant to ceftriaxone, one of the three preferred antibiotic treatments. Analysis at the Swedish Reference library for Pathogenic Neisseria also found it to be resistant to all other types of cephalosporins as well as the majority of 30 antimicrobials tested. The researchers were able to show that the new bacteria strain possessed a new gene variant that enabled it to be resistant to cephalosporins.