{"id":141090,"date":"2022-06-25T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/an-ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-scientists-warn"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:23:19","slug":"an-ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/an-ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-scientists-warn","title":{"rendered":"An Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Scientists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-scientists-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Typhoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fever\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"fever\">fever<\/a> might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/decades-neglecting-an-ancient-disease-has-triggered-a-health-emergency-around-the-world-121282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been around for millennia<\/a>, is still very much a danger in our modern world.<\/p>\n<p>According to new research, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and it\u2019s rapidly replacing strains that aren\u2019t resistant.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat typhoid, which is caused by the bacterium <em>Salmonella enterica<\/em> serovar Typhi (S Typhi). Yet over the past three decades, the bacterium\u2019s resistance to oral antibiotics has been growing and spreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoid fever might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have been around for millennia, is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to new research, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and it\u2019s rapidly replacing strains that aren\u2019t resistant. Currently, antibiotics are [\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-141090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141090","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=141090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}