{"id":307489,"date":"2023-09-28T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=307489"},"modified":"2023-09-28T09:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:09:41","slug":"polish-belgian-project-by-university-of-wroclaw-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-belgian-project-by-university-of-wroclaw-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish-Belgian project by University of Wroc\u0142aw researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa from the University of Wroc\u0142aw will be carrying out a project on bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) and their use in the fight against multidrug-resistant pathogens (MDR). The research will be conducted in partnership with scientists from Belgium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As mortality from infections caused by MDR strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae without traditional therapeutic options is increasing dramatically, the World Health Organisation has designated this bacterium as a priority 1 (critical) pathogen. Therefore, finding alternative and effective therapies is of paramount importance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This bacterium can produce more than eighty different envelope types, hence finding effective anti-virulent\/antibacterial agents is particularly difficult.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project focuses on typical basic research, but the results will have a very significant economic and social impact, especially in the public health sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwr.edu.pl\/odwieczna-walka-bakterii-i-ich-wirusow\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/uwr.edu.pl\/odwieczna-walka-bakterii-i-ich-wirusow\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa from the University of Wroc\u0142aw will be carrying out a project on bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) and their use in the fight against multidrug-resistant pathogens (MDR). The research will be conducted in partnership with scientists from Belgium. As mortality from infections caused by MDR strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae without traditional therapeutic options is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":307466,"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\/307489"}],"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=307489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307498,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307489\/revisions\/307498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}