{"id":239710,"date":"2026-06-26T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/combination-therapy-can-help-global-fight-against-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:24:52","slug":"combination-therapy-can-help-global-fight-against-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/combination-therapy-can-help-global-fight-against-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Combination therapy can help global fight against antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combination-therapy-can-help-global-fight-against-antibiotic-resistance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Monash University-led study has found that an unusual pairing of two commonly used antibiotics can kill and stop the spread of resistance in a highly drug-resistant bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and meningitis.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanmic\/article\/PIIS2666-5247(26)00019-4\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Lancet Microbe<\/i><\/a>, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) researchers used a validated laboratory infection system in which they were able to expose bacterial samples from infected patients to simulated antibiotic dosing regimens, as would actually occur in hospitalized patients.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the combination regimen of two so-called \u03b2-lactam antibiotics\u2014the most commonly used antibiotic class against serious infections\u2014comes in the context of the World Health Organization\u2019s designation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a high-priority pathogen requiring rapid and sustained action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Monash University-led study has found that an unusual pairing of two commonly used antibiotics can kill and stop the spread of resistance in a highly drug-resistant bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and meningitis. Published in The Lancet Microbe, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) researchers used a validated laboratory [\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-239710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239710","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=239710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}