{"id":8767,"date":"2022-10-19T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/unkategorisiert\/the-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-multidrug-resistant-bacteria\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:42:26","slug":"the-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-multidrug-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/unkategorisiert\/the-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-multidrug-resistant-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"The new weapon in the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotics are increasingly failing to combat germs because bacteria have become resistant. The consequence: wounds that do not heal or life-threatening infections that cannot be controlled. New solutions are urgently being sought. Bacteriophages \u2013 viruses that specifically infect and kill certain bacteria \u2013 could be such a solution.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;rbb Praxis&#8221; spoke with Dr. Christine Rohde, phage expert at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig, about what phage therapy entails and why this therapy is not yet used in Germany.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"texttitle title\">How does phage therapy work? How exactly do phages combat bacteria? <\/h5>\n<p class=\"textblock text\">Phages work very specifically and only target a very specific type of bacteria, for example, Staphylococcus aureus. This is a germ that can cause pneumonia, among other things, and is increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Phages recognize the surface structure of bacteria, so-called receptors, and bind to them. This can be imagined as a &#8220;key-lock principle.&#8221; They then pierce the bacterial surface and inject their genetic material into the bacterium. The bacterium then produces many phages itself and eventually bursts under the pressure of the new phage generation. This irrevocably destroys the bacterial cell.      <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbb-online.de\/rbbpraxis\/rbb_praxis_service\/gesundes-wissen\/forschung\/die-neue-waffe-im-kampf-gegen-multiresistente-keime-.html\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotics are increasingly failing to combat germs because bacteria have become resistant. The consequence: wounds that do not heal or life-threatening infections that cannot be controlled. New solutions are urgently being sought. Bacteriophages \u2013 viruses that specifically infect and kill certain bacteria \u2013 could be such a solution. &#8220;rbb Praxis&#8221; spoke with Dr. Christine Rohde, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":558,"featured_media":8446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phage.help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/phagen-1.jpg?fit=966%2C543&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazElU-2hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}