{"id":161547,"date":"2023-04-04T18:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-find-antibiotic-free-way-to-treat-drug-resistant-infections"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:22:39","slug":"scientists-find-antibiotic-free-way-to-treat-drug-resistant-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-find-antibiotic-free-way-to-treat-drug-resistant-infections","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Antibiotic-Free Way to Treat Drug-Resistant Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-antibiotic-free-way-to-treat-drug-resistant-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found an antibiotic-free way of treating \u2018golden staph\u2019 skin infections that are the scourge of some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> patients, and a threat to hospital-goers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The lab study from researchers at the University of Copenhagen utilized an artificial version of an enzyme that\u2019s naturally produced by bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), and used it to eradicate <em>Staphylococcus aureus, <\/em>or golden staph, in biopsy samples from people with skin lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo people who are severely ill with skin lymphoma, staphylococci can be a huge, sometimes insoluble problem, as many are infected with a type of <em>Staphylococcus aureus <\/em>that is resistant to antibiotics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/healthsciences.ku.dk\/newsfaculty-news\/2023\/03\/resistant-bacteria-are-a-global-problem\/\">explains<\/a> immunologist Niels \u00d8dum of the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found an antibiotic-free way of treating \u2018golden staph\u2019 skin infections that are the scourge of some cancer patients, and a threat to hospital-goers everywhere. The lab study from researchers at the University of Copenhagen utilized an artificial version of an enzyme that\u2019s naturally produced by bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), and used it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161547","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}