{"id":86195,"date":"2018-12-28T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bad-plumbing-helped-cause-a-strange-outbreak-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-at-a-maryland-hospital"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:42:36","slug":"bad-plumbing-helped-cause-a-strange-outbreak-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-at-a-maryland-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bad-plumbing-helped-cause-a-strange-outbreak-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-at-a-maryland-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Bad Plumbing Helped Cause a Strange Outbreak of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at a Maryland Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bad-plumbing-helped-cause-a-strange-outbreak-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-at-a-maryland-hospital2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Clinical Center, the U.S. government\u2019s most prominent research hospital, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients were somehow being sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria that practically never causes disease in humans. Two years later, a new study seems to finally have confirmed where this bug likely came from: the hospital\u2019s own plumbing.<\/p>\n<p>During a six-month period in 2016, six patients came down with infections caused by <em>Sphingomonas<\/em> bacteria. Four of the patients had an antibiotic-resistant strain of a particular species, <em>Sphingomonas koreensis<\/em>, which was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11491350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered<\/a> in some of Korea\u2019s natural mineral water spots in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/bad-plumbing-helped-cause-a-strange-outbreak-of-antibio-1831368667\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/bad-plumbing-helped-cause-a-strange-outb...1831368667<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Clinical Center, the U.S. government\u2019s most prominent research hospital, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients were somehow being sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria that practically never causes disease in humans. Two years later, a new study seems to finally have confirmed where this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86195","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=86195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}