{"id":5055,"date":"2012-04-23T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2012-05-01T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:04:41","slug":"dangerous-salmonella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/dangerous-salmonella\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous salmonella discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5056\" title=\"salmonella\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/salmonella.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/salmonella.gif 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/salmonella-300x185.gif 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/salmonella-250x154.gif 250w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/salmonella-119x74.gif 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salmonella typhimurium (red) invades cultured human cells in this colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Scientists have discovered hypervirulent salmonella bacteria.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsb.edu\/\">University of California in Santa Barbara<\/a>\u00a0have discovered salmonella bacteria that are up to 100 times more capable of causing disease. According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plospathogens.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1002647\">study<\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PLoS Pathogens<\/em>, these hypervirulent bugs could override the immunity in vaccinated animals and pose a threat to the food industry.<\/p>\n<p>The bacteria look like their less virulent cousins, but have been much harder discover as they behave like a Trojan Horse \u2014 they only expose themselves when causing disease. Now the researchers are able to separate them from their &#8216;cousins&#8217; and examine their weaponry in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ia.ucsb.edu\/pa\/display.aspx?pkey=2692\">The University of California- Santa Barbara<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered hypervirulent salmonella bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101,48,8],"tags":[869,856,860,120,239],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-images","category-bulls-eye","category-health","category-science","tag-bacteria","tag-bulls-eye","tag-cells","tag-health-2","tag-salmonella"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}