{"id":34442,"date":"2017-02-12T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/compound-discovered-that-kills-98-of-drug-resistant-superbug"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:21","slug":"compound-discovered-that-kills-98-of-drug-resistant-superbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/compound-discovered-that-kills-98-of-drug-resistant-superbug","title":{"rendered":"Compound Discovered That Kills 98% of Drug-Resistant Superbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/compound-discovered-that-kills-98-of-drug-resistant-superbug.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that an Antarctic sea sponge produces a compound that can effectively kill 98.4% of MRSA cells. The compound has been patented and is now undergoing lab synthesis in order to develop a treatment for the life-threatening infection.<\/p>\n<p>Research published in <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.orglett.6b00979\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Organic Letters<\/em><\/a> shows a compound that can successfully kill Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been found, a mutated strain of Staphylococcus aureis that has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-discover-a-new-drug-approach-that-could-curb-antibiotic-resistance\/\">developed resistance<\/a> to most available antibiotics used in treatment of common staph infections.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/antarctic-sea-sponges-may-help-kill-mrsa\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/antarctic-sea-sponges-may-help-kill-mrsa\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Researchers found that an Antarctic sea sponge produces a compound that can effectively kill 98.4% of MRSA cells. The compound has been patented and is now undergoing lab synthesis in order to develop a treatment for the life-threatening infection. Research published in Organic Letters shows a compound that can successfully kill Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58759,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442\/revisions\/58759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}