{"id":97706,"date":"2019-10-22T04:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/it-took-just-three-weeks-for-superbug-to-resist-last-resort-drug-doctors-say"},"modified":"2019-10-22T04:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:42:36","slug":"it-took-just-three-weeks-for-superbug-to-resist-last-resort-drug-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/it-took-just-three-weeks-for-superbug-to-resist-last-resort-drug-doctors-say","title":{"rendered":"It Took Just Three Weeks for Superbug to Resist Last-Resort Drug, Doctors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-took-just-three-weeks-for-superbug-to-resist-last-resort-drug-doctors-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Halloween, doctors in France say they witnessed a real-life horror tale involving an antibiotic-resistant superbug. In less than a month, their patient\u2019s infection evolved resistance to the last-resort drug they had used to treat it. Thankfully, the doctors were still able to defeat the microscopic threat\u2014and the case may have uncovered a peculiar weakness in the germ.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/aac.asm.org\/content\/early\/2019\/10\/01\/AAC.01637-19\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/aac.asm.org\/content\/early\/2019\/10\/01\/AAC.01637-19\">published<\/a> in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a young child had been dealing with recurrent infections of the bacteria <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/em> for over two years. <em>P. aeruginosa<\/em> is an opportunistic infection that sickens tens of thousands of already weakened people in hospitals and other health-care settings in the U.S. a year. In these people, it can cause <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hai\/organisms\/pseudomonas.html\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hai\/organisms\/pseudomonas.html\">serious infections.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Halloween, doctors in France say they witnessed a real-life horror tale involving an antibiotic-resistant superbug. In less than a month, their patient\u2019s infection evolved resistance to the last-resort drug they had used to treat it. Thankfully, the doctors were still able to defeat the microscopic threat\u2014and the case may have uncovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97706","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=97706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}