{"id":92895,"date":"2019-06-30T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ncsu-scientists-find-antibiotic-resistant-salmonella-new-outbreak-hits-62-people-in-us"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:02:26","slug":"ncsu-scientists-find-antibiotic-resistant-salmonella-new-outbreak-hits-62-people-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ncsu-scientists-find-antibiotic-resistant-salmonella-new-outbreak-hits-62-people-in-us","title":{"rendered":"NCSU scientists find antibiotic resistant Salmonella; new outbreak hits 62 people in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ncsu-scientists-find-antibiotic-resistant-salmonella-new-outbreak-hits-62-people-in-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort in a sample taken from a human patient in the U.S. The find is the first evidence that the gene mcr-3.1 has made its way into the U.S. from Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as a new Salmonella outbreak has hit the US, leaving 62 people ill across eight states.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 2,500 known serotypes of Salmonella. In the U.S., Salmonella enterica 4,[5],12:i:- ST34 is responsible for a significant percentage of human illnesses. The drug resistance gene in question \u2013 known as mcr-3.1 \u2013 gives Salmonella resistance to colistin, the drug of last resort for treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant Salmonella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort in a sample taken from a human patient in the U.S. The find is the first evidence that the gene mcr-3.1 has made its way into the U.S. from Asia. The news comes as a new [\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-92895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92895","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=92895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}