{"id":12406,"date":"2018-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/local-researchers-have-found-a-new-way-to-fight-superbugs\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:00:00","slug":"local-researchers-have-found-a-new-way-to-fight-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-researchers-have-found-a-new-way-to-fight-superbugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Researchers Have Found A New Way To Fight Superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adelaide researchers have developed a new way to fight superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics.<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Katharina Richter from the Uni of Adelaide says her team is working on starving the bugs of iron.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/superbugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cIron is like chocolate for bacteria,\u201d Dr Richter said on Tuesday. \u201cIt gives them energy to grow, cause disease, and withstand attacks from our immune systems and antibiotics.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cUsing two different compounds, we first starve the bacteria of iron and then feed them the bacterial equivalent of poisonous chocolate, which the hungry bacteria find irresistible.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis \u2018double whammy\u2019 approach has defeated superbugs like golden staph in laboratory and animal studies.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Human trials have already started at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation currently predicts that by 2050 10 million people will die each year due to antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Look out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/superbugs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#superbugs<\/a>, a solution is at hand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIVEAANews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIVEAANews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jnIL9ricKE\">pic.twitter.com\/jnIL9ricKE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matthew Pantelis  (@MatthewPantelis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewPantelis\/status\/970886718478991360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide researchers have developed a new way to fight superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics. Dr Katharina Richter from the Uni of Adelaide says her team is working on starving the bugs of iron. \u201cIron is like chocolate for bacteria,\u201d Dr Richter said on Tuesday. \u201cIt gives them energy to grow, cause disease, and withstand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_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":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Local Researchers Have Found A New Way To Fight Superbugs - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-researchers-have-found-a-new-way-to-fight-superbugs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local Researchers Have Found A New Way To Fight Superbugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adelaide researchers have developed a new way to fight superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics. 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