{"665006":{"#nid":"665006","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How clean hospitals can reduce antibiotic resistance and save lives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/emph\/article\/11\/1\/1\/6991286?login=false\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEvolution, Medicine, and Public Health,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Epublished by Oxford University Press, indicates that antibiotic resistance may result from poor hygiene practices in hospitals or other medical facilities.\u0026nbsp;Researchers addressed whether hygiene weakens the effect of antibiotic pressure on resistance evolution. The authors first developed a mathematical model of resistance to predict how good or poor hygiene might affect how rapidly resistant bacteria increase in abundance due to antibiotic treatment.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/kristofer-wollein-waldetoft-march-2021\u0022\u003EKristofer Wollein Waldetoft\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral researcher with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI)\u003C\/a\u003E in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/sam-brown\u0022\u003ESam Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School\u0026nbsp;and former\u0026nbsp;CMDI director, collaborated on the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-23 19:10:22","changed_gmt":"2023-01-23 19:10:22","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/976370","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"183920","name":"Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection"},{"id":"176649","name":"Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft"},{"id":"167225","name":"Sam Brown"},{"id":"191962","name":"antiobiotic resistance"},{"id":"191963","name":"hospital hygiene"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}