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Antibiotic resistance  is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of the drugs used to treat them. This means the bacteria are no longer killed by a drug that used to kill them before. The bacteria are then free to keep multiplying. Gonorrhea has developed resistance to nearly all of the antibiotics used for its treatment.  We are currently down to one last recommended and effective class of antibiotics, cephalosporins, to treat this common infection. This is an urgent public health threat because gonorrhea control in the United States largely relies on our ability to successfully treat the infection. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention