{"id":9278,"date":"2025-04-23T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:39:55","slug":"typhoid-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/23\/typhoid-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoid Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-study-warns\">Science Alert<\/a> Typhoid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fever\">fever<\/a>&nbsp;might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/decades-neglecting-an-ancient-disease-has-triggered-a-health-emergency-around-the-world-121282\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"been around for millennia, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">been around for millennia<\/a>, is still very much a danger in our modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and it&#8217;s rapidly replacing strains that aren&#8217;t resistant. Currently, antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat typhoid, which is caused by the bacterium\u00a0<em>Salmonella enterica<\/em>\u00a0serovar Typhi (S Typhi). Yet over the past three decades, the bacterium&#8217;s resistance to oral antibiotics has been growing and spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-study-warns\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"skD K hr oQ dlV   XRc  LzG\">skD K hr oQ dlV   XRc  LzG<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Alert Typhoid&nbsp;fever&nbsp;might be rare in developed countries, but this ancient threat, thought to have&nbsp;been around for millennia, is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and it&#8217;s rapidly replacing strains that aren&#8217;t resistant. Currently, antibiotics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}