{"id":250289,"date":"2022-11-17T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=250289"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:04:10","slug":"scientists-of-the-university-of-gdansk-against-multidrug-resistant-microorganisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/scientists-of-the-university-of-gdansk-against-multidrug-resistant-microorganisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists of the University of Gda\u0144sk against multidrug-resistant microorganisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A collaboration between scientists from the University of Gdansk and a team of researchers from China&#8217;s Tianjin University has resulted in an article published in the prestigious Chemical Engineering Journal. The international team described a new method for combating multidrug-resistant microorganisms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Europe, there are 4.5 million hospital-acquired infections per year. This number is rising all the time, not least due to new antibiotic-resistant bacteria. As a result, alternative, safer and more effective antimicrobial strategies are urgently sought, particularly against &#8216;ESKAPE&#8217; superbugs, which have &#8216;escape&#8217; mechanisms against antimicrobial drugs and host defence mechanisms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One such approach was described by the authors of the article &#8216;Iron-blocking antibacterial therapy with cationic heme-mimetic gallium porphyrin photosensitizer for combating antibiotic resistance and enhancing photodynamic antibacterial activity&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ug.edu.pl\/news\/pl\/4280\/jak-zmniejszyc-ilosc-zakazen-w-szpitalu-o-tym-pisza-naukowcy-z-ug-i-z-chin-w-chemical-engineering\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/ug.edu.pl\/news\/pl\/4280\/jak-zmniejszyc-ilosc-zakazen-w-szpitalu-o-tym-pisza-naukowcy-z-ug-i-z-chin-w-chemical-engineering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaboration between scientists from the University of Gdansk and a team of researchers from China&#8217;s Tianjin University has resulted in an article published in the prestigious Chemical Engineering Journal. The international team described a new method for combating multidrug-resistant microorganisms.\u00a0 In Europe, there are 4.5 million hospital-acquired infections per year. This number is rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":250253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}