{"id":118424,"date":"2021-01-12T11:24:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-investigate-phages-that-can-kill-the-worlds-leading-superbug-acinetobacter-baumannii"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:24:26","slug":"scientists-investigate-phages-that-can-kill-the-worlds-leading-superbug-acinetobacter-baumannii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-investigate-phages-that-can-kill-the-worlds-leading-superbug-acinetobacter-baumannii","title":{"rendered":"Scientists investigate phages that can kill the world\u2019s leading superbug, Acinetobacter baumannii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-investigate-phages-that-can-kill-the-worlds-leading-superbug-acinetobacter-baumannii2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major risk of being hospitalised is catching a bacterial infection.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals, especially areas including intensive care units and surgical wards, are teeming with bacteria, some of which are resistant to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antibiotics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antibiotics <\/a>\u2014they are infamously known as \u2018superbugs\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Superbug infections are difficult and expensive to treat, and can often lead to dire consequences for the patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major risk of being hospitalised is catching a bacterial infection. Hospitals, especially areas including intensive care units and surgical wards, are teeming with bacteria, some of which are resistant to antibiotics \u2014they are infamously known as \u2018superbugs\u2019. Superbug infections are difficult and expensive to treat, and can often lead to dire consequences for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}