{"id":140240,"date":"2022-06-07T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/common-drug-resistant-superbug-develops-fast-resistance-to-last-resort-antibiotic"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:03:19","slug":"common-drug-resistant-superbug-develops-fast-resistance-to-last-resort-antibiotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/common-drug-resistant-superbug-develops-fast-resistance-to-last-resort-antibiotic","title":{"rendered":"Common drug-resistant superbug develops fast resistance to \u2018last resort\u2019 antibiotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-drug-resistant-superbug-develops-fast-resistance-to-last-resort-antibiotic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study published today in <i>Cell Reports<\/i> reveals how populations of a bacterium called Pseudomonas respond to being treated with Colistin, a \u201clast resort\u201d antibiotic for patients who have developed multi-drug resistant infections.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics play a key role in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+health\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human health<\/a> by helping to combat <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacterial+infection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacterial infection<\/a>, but bacteria can evolve resistance to antibiotics patients rely on. Antibiotic\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/resistant+infections\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resistant infections<\/a> now cause 1 million deaths worldwide per year.<\/p>\n<p>With a small number of \u201clast-resort\u201d antibiotics available, researchers from the University of Oxford are investigating the processes that drive the rise, and fall, of resistance in common bacterial pathogen populations, which is key to tackling the increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study published today in Cell Reports reveals how populations of a bacterium called Pseudomonas respond to being treated with Colistin, a \u201clast resort\u201d antibiotic for patients who have developed multi-drug resistant infections. Antibiotics play a key role in human health by helping to combat bacterial infection, but bacteria can evolve resistance to antibiotics patients [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140240","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}