{"id":4979,"date":"2019-05-15T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:23:00","slug":"the-death-of-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/the-death-of-antibiotics.php","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Mohamed Seleem&#8217;s work was featured in Newsweek&#8217;s top story titled &#8220;The Death of Antibiotics: We\u2019re Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Mohamed Seleem, a Purdue University biologist, and his colleagues were trying to come up with a way to quickly identify infectious bacteria in blood samples by hitting the samples with laser light of different colors. Along the way, they noticed that certain drug-resistant bacteria changed color from gold to white just seconds after being hit with a mild beam of blue laser light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story at Newsweek &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Death of Antibiotics: We\u2019re Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/purdue.vet\/TheDeathofAntibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">The Death of Antibiotics: We\u2019re Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mohamed Seleem&#8217;s work was featured in Newsweek&#8217;s top story titled &#8220;The Death of Antibiotics: We\u2019re Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs&#8221;. &#8220;Mohamed Seleem, a Purdue University biologist, and his colleagues were trying to come up with a way to quickly identify infectious bacteria in blood samples by hitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[918,171],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-antimicrobial-resistance","tag-mohamed-seleem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33882,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/33882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}