{"id":92035,"date":"2019-06-14T03:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/superbug-gene-that-resists-last-resort-antibiotics-detected-in-us-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-06-14T03:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:23:29","slug":"superbug-gene-that-resists-last-resort-antibiotics-detected-in-us-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/superbug-gene-that-resists-last-resort-antibiotics-detected-in-us-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Superbug gene that resists \u201clast resort\u201d antibiotics detected in US for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superbug-gene-that-resists-last-resort-antibiotics-detected-in-us-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/antibiotic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antibiotics<\/a> were one of the most important scientific developments of the 20th century, helping to easily control bacterial infections and make previously life-threatening procedures and illnesses safe. But inversely, they might also be one of the biggest medical issues of the 21st century, as <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/superbugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bacteria evolve resistances<\/a> to our best drugs. Now, a bacterial gene that grants resistance to <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/last-line-antibiotics-failing\/46529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201clast resort\u201d antibiotics<\/a> has been detected in a patient in the US, for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/bacteria-antibiotic-resistance-last-resort\/60129\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotics were one of the most important scientific developments of the 20th century, helping to easily control bacterial infections and make previously life-threatening procedures and illnesses safe. But inversely, they might also be one of the biggest medical issues of the 21st century, as bacteria evolve resistances to our best drugs. Now, a bacterial gene [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92035","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=92035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}