{"622063":{"#nid":"622063","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Study urges smarter use of antibiotics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, 2 million Americans develop an antibiotic-resistant infection, and 23,000 die from it. At Georgia Tech, Associate Professor of Biology \u003Cstrong\u003ESam Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E, who works in Tech\u0026#39;s new\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection\u003C\/a\u003E, says the overuse of antibiotics in farming and medicine can make us vulnerable to drug-resistant bacteria. \u0026quot;Very simply, it means you\u0026#39;ll take the same drugs and they won\u0026#39;t work,\u0026quot; Brown says.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;So, if you have an ear infection, it will not resolve, because the antibiotic is unable to kill the bacteria.\u0026quot; If you take an antibiotic for a viral infection, which the medications are not designed to treat, the antibiotic can attack and destroy healthy bacteria in your body, creating a void for potentially harmful bacteria to move in. \u0026quot;So, this is actually damaging to you as an individual,\u0026quot; Brown says.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s damaging to you in terms of your microbiome and your risk of subsequent infection.\u0026quot; Study got similar coverage from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/health\/study-urges-smarter-use-of-antibiotics\u0022\u003EFox 2 KTVU\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-05-29 20:47:38","changed_gmt":"2019-06-03 21:25:43","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"biotin","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/web\/wtvt\/health\/study-urges-smarter-use-of-antibiotics","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600249":{"id":"600249","type":"image","title":"Sam Brown, associate professor, bacterial virulence and evolution","body":null,"created":"1514490881","gmt_created":"2017-12-28 19:54:41","changed":"1514490881","gmt_changed":"2017-12-28 19:54:41","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228837","name":"Sam.sm_.thru_.bench_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam.sm_.thru_.bench_.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam.sm_.thru_.bench_.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2280236,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sam.sm_.thru_.bench_.jpg?itok=UkZKP_oD"}}},"media_ids":["600249"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11571","name":"Antibiotics"},{"id":"178865","name":"drug resistance"}],"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":""}}}