{"id":154933,"date":"2023-01-08T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-new-weapon-against-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria"},"modified":"2023-01-08T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:23:17","slug":"a-new-weapon-against-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-new-weapon-against-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"A New Weapon Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-weapon-against-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UNIGE researchers have discovered that a medication commonly used to treat herpes can combat an antibiotic-resistant bacterium by disrupting its defense mechanisms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic resistance, or the ability of bacteria to develop resistance to treatment with antibiotics, has become a major concern for global health. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers it one of the greatest threats to health. The overuse of antibiotics has contributed to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can cause serious illness and death. One example of an antibiotic-resistant pathogen is <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/em>, a bacterium commonly found in hospitals and known for its virulence. Without effective treatment options, we could see a resurgence of diseases such as pneumonia and salmonella, which were once easily treated with antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-geneva\/>University of Geneva (UNIGE)<\/a> have found that edoxudine, an anti-herpes molecule developed in the 1960s, can disrupt the protective surface of <em>Klebsiella<\/em> bacteria and make them more vulnerable to being eliminated by immune cells. The researchers\u2019 findings were recently published in the journal <em>PLOS ONE<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIGE researchers have discovered that a medication commonly used to treat herpes can combat an antibiotic-resistant bacterium by disrupting its defense mechanisms. Antibiotic resistance, or the ability of bacteria to develop resistance to treatment with antibiotics, has become a major concern for global health. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers it one of the greatest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154933","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\/154933","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}