{"id":223971,"date":"2025-10-25T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/study-reveals-how-a-stubborn-lung-infection-evolves-inside-patients-over-years"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:03:52","slug":"study-reveals-how-a-stubborn-lung-infection-evolves-inside-patients-over-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/study-reveals-how-a-stubborn-lung-infection-evolves-inside-patients-over-years","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals how a stubborn lung infection evolves inside patients over years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-how-a-stubborn-lung-infection-evolves-inside-patients-over-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James\u2019s Hospital have uncovered how the bacterium Mycobacterium avium\u2014a leading cause of difficult-to-treat chronic lung infections\u2014changes and adapts inside patients over many years of illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13073-025-01549-y\" target=\"_blank\">Their findings<\/a>, published in the journal <i>Genome Medicine<\/i>, could help doctors understand why M. avium infections come back and why antibiotics sometimes fail.<\/p>\n<p>The team undertook this research to understand how M. avium manages to survive for years in people\u2019s lungs, even during long courses of antibiotics. This bacterium causes a type of chronic lung <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/infection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infection<\/a> that\u2019s becoming more common around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James\u2019s Hospital have uncovered how the bacterium Mycobacterium avium\u2014a leading cause of difficult-to-treat chronic lung infections\u2014changes and adapts inside patients over many years of illness. Their findings, published in the journal Genome Medicine, could help doctors understand why M. avium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223971","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}