{"id":5684,"date":"2011-03-11T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_8575\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"650\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-8575\" src=\"http:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/baseman2.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Baseman, Ph.D., leads the N"},"modified":"2016-04-03T22:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:06:53","slug":"microbiologists-and-surgeons-team-up-to-study-airway-disease-in-icu-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/microbiologists-and-surgeons-team-up-to-study-airway-disease-in-icu-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbiologists and surgeons team up to study airway disease in ICU patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_8575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8575\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8575\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/baseman2.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Baseman, Ph.D., leads the NTI-funded airway disease study at the UT Health Science Center.\" width=\"650\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/baseman2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/baseman2-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/baseman2-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Joel Baseman, Ph.D., leads the NTI-funded airway disease study at the UT Health Science Center.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"indextxt\">The discovery of a toxin produced by Mycoplasma pneumoniae five years ago in the lab of Joel Baseman, Ph.D., chairman of biology and immunology, sparked further research into how frequently M. pneumoniae infection affects patients on ventilators in intensive care units and how it impacts their outcomes. A $190,000 grant from the National Trauma Institute is allowing Health Science Center researchers to take their study into intensive care units (ICUs) around the country, where surgeons take a sample to a lab and then microbiologists analyze it. 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