{"id":147749,"date":"2022-10-07T23:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/light-based-therapy-weakens-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria"},"modified":"2022-10-07T23:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T04:25:12","slug":"light-based-therapy-weakens-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/light-based-therapy-weakens-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Light-based therapy weakens antibiotic-resistant bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-based-therapy-weakens-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics are standard treatments for fighting dangerous bacterial infections. Yet the number of bacteria developing a resistance to antibiotics is increasing. Researchers from Texas A&amp;M University and the University of S\u00e3o Paulo are overcoming this resistance with light.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers tailored antimicrobial <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photodynamic+therapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photodynamic therapy<\/a> (aPDT)\u2014a chemical reaction triggered by visible light\u2014for use on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antibiotic-resistant+bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antibiotic-resistant bacteria<\/a> strains. Results showed the treatment weakened <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> to where low doses of current antibiotics could effectively eliminate them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing aPDT in combination with antibiotics creates a synergy of interaction working together for a solution,\u201d said Vladislav Yakovlev, University Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&amp;M and co-director of the project. \u201cIt\u2019s a step in the right direction against resistant bacteria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotics are standard treatments for fighting dangerous bacterial infections. Yet the number of bacteria developing a resistance to antibiotics is increasing. Researchers from Texas A&amp;M University and the University of S\u00e3o Paulo are overcoming this resistance with light. The researchers tailored antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT)\u2014a chemical reaction triggered by visible light\u2014for use on antibiotic-resistant bacteria [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}