{"id":82319,"date":"2018-09-05T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/superbug-discovery-renews-hope-for-antibiotic-treatment"},"modified":"2018-09-05T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:22:21","slug":"superbug-discovery-renews-hope-for-antibiotic-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/superbug-discovery-renews-hope-for-antibiotic-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Superbug discovery renews hope for antibiotic treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superbug-discovery-renews-hope-for-antibiotic-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria that were thought to be resistant to a powerful antibiotic may be susceptible to treatment after all, research has found.<\/p>\n<p>The food-poisoning bug Listeria was shown to respond to an antibiotic even though the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> carry <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genes<\/a> that should make it highly resistant.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say the antibiotic\u2014called fosfomycin\u2014should be reconsidered as a treatment for life-threatening Listeria infections.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-09-superbug-discovery-renews-antibiotic-treatment.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;09-superbug-discover...tment.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria that were thought to be resistant to a powerful antibiotic may be susceptible to treatment after all, research has found. The food-poisoning bug Listeria was shown to respond to an antibiotic even though the bacteria carry genes that should make it highly resistant. Scientists say the antibiotic\u2014called fosfomycin\u2014should be reconsidered as a treatment for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82319","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}