{"id":221195,"date":"2025-08-30T04:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-move-toward-developing-vaccine-against-pathogenic-staphylococcus-aureus"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:17:11","slug":"scientists-move-toward-developing-vaccine-against-pathogenic-staphylococcus-aureus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-move-toward-developing-vaccine-against-pathogenic-staphylococcus-aureus","title":{"rendered":"Scientists move toward developing vaccine against pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-move-toward-developing-vaccine-against-pathogenic-staphylococcus-aureus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics are the old medicine cabinet standby for treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but as antimicrobial resistance continues to mount globally, scientists say there\u2019s a need for new strategies.<\/p>\n<p>While vaccines are a potential answer, achieving an effective way to immunize against multidrug-resistant S. aureus has led scientists down dozens of blind alleys. Ten <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/candidate+vaccines\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">candidate vaccines<\/a> that looked promising in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/preclinical+animal+studies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">preclinical animal studies<\/a> in recent years failed miserably in human clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists in China are investigating a way to sidestep the myriad problems that plagued vaccine investigators in the past by choosing not to target a whole antigen. Instead, they say, it\u2019s time to home in on a critical \u201csurface loop\u201d as a vaccine target. The infinitesimal loop is located on the S. aureus antigen known as MntC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotics are the old medicine cabinet standby for treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but as antimicrobial resistance continues to mount globally, scientists say there\u2019s a need for new strategies. While vaccines are a potential answer, achieving an effective way to immunize against multidrug-resistant S. aureus has led scientists down dozens of blind alleys. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221195","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}