{"id":81915,"date":"2018-08-19T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/weaponizing-oxygen-to-kill-infections-and-disease"},"modified":"2018-08-19T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:43:03","slug":"weaponizing-oxygen-to-kill-infections-and-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/weaponizing-oxygen-to-kill-infections-and-disease","title":{"rendered":"Weaponizing oxygen to kill infections and disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weaponizing-oxygen-to-kill-infections-and-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The life-threatening bacteria called MRSA can cripple a hospital since it spreads quickly and is resistant to treatment. But scientists report that they are now making advances in a new technique that avoids antibiotics. Instead, they are using light to activate oxygen, which then wipes out antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The method also could be used to treat other microbial infections, and possibly even cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are presenting their results today at the 256th National Meeting &amp; Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).<\/p>\n<p>Clinical facilities currently have few alternatives when trying to rid their patients of MRSA (methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus<\/i>). The Veterans Health Care System, for example, hires infection prevention staff to track hand hygiene. Going even further, one recent study found that disinfecting every patient admitted to an acute-care setting cut the rate of bloodstream infections in half. However, this procedure isn\u2019t feasible at most hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-weaponizing-oxygen-infections-disease.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-weaponizing-oxygen-infections-disease.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life-threatening bacteria called MRSA can cripple a hospital since it spreads quickly and is resistant to treatment. But scientists report that they are now making advances in a new technique that avoids antibiotics. Instead, they are using light to activate oxygen, which then wipes out antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The method also could be used to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81915","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}