Acting health director general Patrick Amoth has said that the report on the super gonorrhoea infection came from a study conducted on sex workers.
Speaking on Tuesday during an interview with Citizen TV, Amoth said the infection has been reported from several other countries including Japan, Thailand and the UK.
"The report came from a study conducted by Kemri amongst commercial sex workers and out of the pathogens looked at was Neisseria gonorrhoea the one that causes gonorrhoea infection," he said.
"In one individual, out of about 400, was one which was resistant to nearly all antibiotics that we put it through."
Amoth said Kemri is doing research to explain the spread and span of super gonorrhoea
He urged Kenyans to use preventive and protective measures.
This is after a strand of gonorrhoea resistant to most drugs used to treat the disease was discovered in Nairobi.
Amina Abdullahi, a researcher from Kemri who made the discovery, said most of the sick women did not even have the clinical symptoms of gonorrhoea.
She tested the isolated bacterium against 13 antimicrobials which comprise the mainstay antibiotics for the disease in Kenya.
“The result showed complete (100 per cent) resistance to all the antimicrobials,” she reported.
The drugs that failed included ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone, which are in the current STI treatment algorithm in Kenya.
