{"id":90760,"date":"2019-05-15T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/decoy-antibiotics-could-get-around-bacterias-defences"},"modified":"2019-05-15T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:23:29","slug":"decoy-antibiotics-could-get-around-bacterias-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/decoy-antibiotics-could-get-around-bacterias-defences","title":{"rendered":"Decoy antibiotics could get around bacteria\u2019s defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decoy-antibiotics-could-get-around-bacterias-defences2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imperial medical students have helped to devise a new type of \u2018decoy\u2019 drug to tackle infections that are resistant to antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>In lab tests on bacterial cultures, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/drug\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug<\/a> successfully killed a strain of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/drug-resistant+bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug-resistant bacteria<\/a>. It works by delivering two antibiotics, one of which is effectively hidden. When the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> fight against the first \u2018decoy\u2019 antibiotic, this action opens up the drug, triggering the second antibiotic into action.<\/p>\n<p>This enables the second antibiotic to be delivered in a targeted way, only being released where it encounters drug-resistant bacteria. The findings could help prolong the life of existing antibiotics by slowing the rate at which bacteria become resistant to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-decoy-antibiotics-bacteria-defences.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>Imperial medical students have helped to devise a new type of \u2018decoy\u2019 drug to tackle infections that are resistant to antibiotics. In lab tests on bacterial cultures, the new drug successfully killed a strain of drug-resistant bacteria. It works by delivering two antibiotics, one of which is effectively hidden. When the bacteria fight against the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90760","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}