{"id":151909,"date":"2022-12-05T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/researchers-discover-never-before-seen-mechanism-bacteria-use-to-resist-antibiotic-treatment"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:25:11","slug":"researchers-discover-never-before-seen-mechanism-bacteria-use-to-resist-antibiotic-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/researchers-discover-never-before-seen-mechanism-bacteria-use-to-resist-antibiotic-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover never-before-seen mechanism bacteria use to resist antibiotic treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ERQFu2gEepU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made through a fatal bacteria named Group A Streptococcus.<\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have recently discovered a previously unknown mechanism used by bacteria to resist antibiotic treatment. According to a press release published by Telethon Kids Institute, it\u2019s predicted that this antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will kill ten million people annually by 2050.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Manjurul\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent this, Dr. Timothy Barnett \u2014 head of the Strep A Pathogenesis and Diagnostics team at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, based at Telethon Kids Institute in Perth \u2014 and his team launched a brand-new mechanism through which bacteria can absorb nutrients from their human hosts while evading antibiotic therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery was made through a fatal bacteria named Group A Streptococcus. Australian researchers have recently discovered a previously unknown mechanism used by bacteria to resist antibiotic treatment. According to a press release published by Telethon Kids Institute, it\u2019s predicted that this antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will kill ten million people annually by 2050. Manjurul\/iStock. To [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151909","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}