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Reply To: Why do they want a throat retest but not a urine one?

tinbird 4 weeks ago

It is deliberate, not inconsistent. Throat infections are genuinely harder to clear than genital or rectal ones, and fewer regimens reliably eradicate them.

Because of that, the CDC guidance recommends a test of cure specifically for pharyngeal gonorrhoea, roughly one to two weeks after treatment. For urogenital infection a routine test of cure is not recommended in the same way.

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