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Kenneth Keiler

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Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State

The Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium causes gonorrhea by infecting mucous membranes. Design Cells/iStock Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

October 5, 2022

Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID‑19 – a molecular biologist explains the sexually transmitted superbug

Kenneth Keiler, Penn State

The US currently has only one antibiotic available to treat gonorrhea – and it’s becoming less effective.

Natural soaps without antibiotics may be better for you than ones with triclosan. From www.shutterstock.com

September 14, 2016

Why you should dispense with antibacterial soaps

Sarah Ades, Penn State and Kenneth Keiler, Penn State

The FDA banned the use of 19 antiseptics in hand soaps, saying that the soaps’ makers had not shown that the chemicals did any good. Here’s why the chemicals actually might have been doing harm.

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