{"id":4291,"date":"2019-04-04T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:43:48","slug":"blue-light-could-treat-superbug-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/blue-light-could-treat-superbug-infections.php","title":{"rendered":"Blue light could treat superbug infections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mohamed-seleemLO.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Seleem\" class=\"wp-image-4292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mohamed-seleemLO.jpg 800w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mohamed-seleemLO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mohamed-seleemLO-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mohamed-seleemLO-353x235.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mohamed Seleem Research<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes infection in various parts of the body, is often called a \u201csuperbug\u201d thanks to its ability to dodge many common antibiotics. Although most MRSA infections aren\u2019t serious, some can be life-threatening, sometimes resulting in amputation of the infected appendage. Rather than rolling the dice with a multi-drug combination or wasting precious time trying to determine which medicine to prescribe, doctors could soon use a new method for disarming the superbugs: light therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read More at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2019\/Q2\/blue-light-could-treat-superbug-infections.html\">Blue light could treat superbug infections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes infection in various parts of the body, is often called a \u201csuperbug\u201d thanks to its ability to dodge many common antibiotics. Although most MRSA infections aren\u2019t serious, some can be life-threatening, sometimes resulting in amputation of the infected appendage. Rather than rolling the dice with a multi-drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34085,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/34085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}