{"id":90400,"date":"2019-05-07T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-reversed-in-lab"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:42:26","slug":"drug-resistant-tuberculosis-reversed-in-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-reversed-in-lab","title":{"rendered":"Drug-resistant tuberculosis reversed in lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-reversed-in-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the illness.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Umea University in Sweden have found a compound that prevents and even reverses <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/resistance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resistance<\/a> to isoniazid, the most widely used antibiotic for treating tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published the week of May 6 in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, was conducted in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> growing in the lab, setting the stage for future studies in animals and people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-reversed-inlab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the illness. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Umea University in Sweden have found a compound that prevents [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90400","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}