{"id":155727,"date":"2023-01-18T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-discover-potential-new-method-to-treat-superbug-infections"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:27:08","slug":"scientists-discover-potential-new-method-to-treat-superbug-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-discover-potential-new-method-to-treat-superbug-infections","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover potential new method to treat superbug infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-potential-new-method-to-treat-superbug-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at University of Galway delved into the issue of antimicrobial resistance\u2014one of the greatest threats to human health\u2014discovering the potential to improve treatment options for superbug MRSA infections using penicillin-type antibiotics that have become ineffective on their own.<\/p>\n<p>The research has been published in the journal <i>mBio<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor James P O\u2019Gara and Dr. Merve S Zeden in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, led the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at University of Galway delved into the issue of antimicrobial resistance\u2014one of the greatest threats to human health\u2014discovering the potential to improve treatment options for superbug MRSA infections using penicillin-type antibiotics that have become ineffective on their own. The research has been published in the journal mBio. Professor James P O\u2019Gara and Dr. Merve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155727","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}