{"id":811,"date":"2011-06-30T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/zapping_deadly_bacteria_using_space_technology\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:32:32","slug":"zapping_deadly_bacteria_using_space_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/zapping_deadly_bacteria_using_space_technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecnolog\u00eda espacial para acabar con las bacterias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lede\">\n<p>Las investigaciones realizadas en la estaci\u00f3n espacial internacional podr\u00edan ayudarnos a mantener a los pacientes de los hospitales a salvo de infecciones. Los cient\u00edficos est\u00e1n estudiando nuevas formas de utilizar el plasma (gas cargado el\u00e9ctricamente) para luchar contra las bacterias y los virus que provocan infecciones en los centros hospitalarios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>En los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, expertos en sanidad han detectado un fuerte aumento de \u201csuperbacterias\u201d que resisten a los antibi\u00f3ticos m\u00e1s eficaces. Algunas de ellas se han vuelto tan resistentes que no podemos luchar contra ellas con los medicamentos habituales. Se cree que una de esas bacterias, la SAMR, mata a miles de personas cada a\u00f1o en Europa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-natural\" data-width=\"400\" data-credit=\"Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics\" data-detail-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2011\/06\/Wound_treatment_equipment_using_plasma_technology2\" data-licence=\"ESA Standard Licence\" data-licence-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Terms_and_conditions_of_use_of_images_and_videos_available_on_the_esa_website\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2011\/06\/wound_treatment_equipment_using_plasma_technology2\/17878774-2-eng-GB\/Wound_treatment_equipment_using_plasma_technology.jpg\" alt=\"Wound treatment equipment using plasma technology\"><\/figure>\n<p>Con la ayuda de la ESA, la comunidad cient\u00edfica est\u00e1 tratando de crear un sistema de desinfecci\u00f3n manual para hospitales. Alg\u00fan d\u00eda, la tecnolog\u00eda de plasma fr\u00edo podr\u00eda formar parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. Podr\u00eda utilizarse para desinfectar cepillos de dientes, o hendiduras y grietas ocultas. Pero no s\u00f3lo eso, tambi\u00e9n podr\u00eda servir para limpiar objetos mucho m\u00e1s grandes, como sat\u00e9lites y sondas espaciales que, de esta forma, no transportar\u00edan bacterias de la Tierra a otros planetas.<\/p>\n<p>Esta tecnolog\u00eda puede traernos grandes beneficios. Las bacterias cambian constantemente y se hacen cada vez m\u00e1s resistentes a los antibi\u00f3ticos de uso com\u00fan. En la actualidad, la mejor manera de impedir la propagaci\u00f3n de las infecciones bacterianas en los hospitales es lavarse las manos despu\u00e9s de visitar a cada paciente y limpiar constantemente suelos, picaportes, cortinas y cualquier otro material que pueda contener g\u00e9rmenes peligrosos. Con suerte, el sistema que se est\u00e1 desarrollando utilizar\u00e1 las extraordinarias propiedades antibacterianas del plasma para efectuar la desinfecci\u00f3n de una forma r\u00e1pida y sencilla.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research done onboard the International Space Station could help us keep hospital patients safe from infections. By using plasma \u2013 gas that is electrically charged \u2013 scientists are finding new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2011\/05\/plasma_device_for_sanitising_hands2\/17885396-2-eng-GB\/Plasma_device_for_sanitising_hands.jpg","esa_banner_description":"","esa_banner_credit":"Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2011\/05\/Plasma_device_for_sanitising_hands2","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[10,54,40],"tags":[],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-space-technologies-on-earth","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}