{"id":466,"date":"2016-12-10T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/?p=466"},"modified":"2016-12-11T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:23:31","slug":"december-10-festive-catheters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/2016\/12\/10\/december-10-festive-catheters\/","title":{"rendered":"DECEMBER 10 &#8211; Festive catheters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This festive looking image is a composite looking through a crystalline biofilm showing individual <em>Proteus<\/em>\u00a0on the surface of a single struvite crystal and surrounded by diffuse apatite crystals and was imaged by\u00a0Dr Sandra Wilks.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra&#8217;s work forms part of an interdisciplinary research project\u00a0with Health Sciences to understand biofilm contamination of urinary catheters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In long-term catheter users, approximately 50% will suffer encrustations and catheter blockage often due to the presence of the bacterium, <em>Proteus mirabilis<\/em>. \u00a0I am using advanced microscopy to improve our understanding of the complex crystalline biofilm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you would like to know more about this exciting study and other related research projects please visit \u00a0http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/ifls\/research\/ifls\/newpathwaystohealth\/biofilms.page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This festive looking image is a composite looking through a crystalline biofilm showing individual Proteus\u00a0on the surface of a single struvite crystal and surrounded by diffuse apatite crystals and was imaged by\u00a0Dr Sandra Wilks. Sandra&#8217;s work forms part of an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biosciadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}