{"id":871,"date":"2015-11-19T02:35:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2015-11-19T02:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:35:46","slug":"antibiotic-resistance-world-on-cusp-of-post-antibiotic-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/antibiotic-resistance-world-on-cusp-of-post-antibiotic-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of &#8216;post-antibiotic era&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The world is on the cusp of a &#8220;post-antibiotic era&#8221;, scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.<\/p>\n<p>Their report, in the Lancet, identifies bacteria able to shrug off colistin in patients and livestock in China.<\/p>\n<p>They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the worrying development needed to act as a global wake-up call.<\/p>\n<p>Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment &#8211; also known as the antibiotic apocalypse &#8211; could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.<\/p>\n<p>Common infections would kill once again, while surgery and cancer therapies, which are reliant on antibiotics, would be under threat.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-34857015\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is on the cusp of a &#8220;post-antibiotic era&#8221;, scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,83,279],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-antibiotics","tag-colistin","tag-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}