{"id":3834,"date":"2014-03-10T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/researchers-identify-key-enzyme-found-in-disease-causing-bacteria-responsible-for-heart-valve-disease\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T05:00:03","slug":"researchers-identify-key-enzyme-found-in-disease-causing-bacteria-responsible-for-heart-valve-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/researchers-identify-key-enzyme-found-in-disease-causing-bacteria-responsible-for-heart-valve-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify key enzyme found in disease-causing bacteria responsible for heart valve disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disease-causing bacterium found in the mouth needs manganese, a trace mineral, in order to cause a serious heart infection, according to a preclinical study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityPhilips Institute for Oral Health Research in the School of Dentistry.The findings, which may solve a longstanding mystery of why some bacteria need manganese to cause disease, provide possible new targets for antibiotics. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medworm.com\/index.php?rid=16825543&#038;cid=d_11_26_f&#038;fid=23292&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmnt%2Fhealthnews%2F%7E3%2FquTbPSMSSZU%2F273676.php\">MedWorm: Dentistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disease-causing bacterium found in the mouth needs manganese, a trace mineral, in order to cause a serious heart infection, according to a preclinical study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityPhilips Institute for Oral Health Research in the School of Dentistry.The findings, which may solve a longstanding mystery of why some bacteria need manganese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[189,11,6233,2732,1841,257,6153,1052,5356,6234],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-bacteria","tag-disease","tag-diseasecausing","tag-enzyme","tag-found","tag-heart","tag-identify","tag-researchers","tag-responsible","tag-valve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-ZQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}