{"id":218301,"date":"2025-07-19T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-warns-study"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:13:47","slug":"ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-warns-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-warns-study","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Warns Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-warns-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In spite of having <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/decades-neglecting-an-ancient-disease-has-triggered-a-health-emergency-around-the-world-121282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plagued humans for millennia<\/a>, t yphoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fever\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">fever<\/a> is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world.<\/p>\n<p>According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that aren\u2019t resistant.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat typhoid, which is caused by the bacterium <em>Salmonella enterica<\/em> serovar Typhi (S Typhi). Yet over the past three decades, the bacterium\u2019s resistance to oral antibiotics has been growing and spreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of having plagued humans for millennia, t yphoid fever is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218301","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}