Deadly Superbug NDM-1 bacteria gene resistant to most powerful antibiotics
The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal published a report on Wednesday, Aug 11 on the new gene called New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1). This super bug is resistant to almost all kinds of antibiotics including the most powerful class called carbapenems. Super bug is said to be invaded in UK. The reports say that the bacteria NDM-1 has travelled back with NHS patients who went South Asian countries like India and Pakistan for medical treatments. Though 50 cases of such bacterial infection have been identified in UK yet the scientists apprehend that it could spread globally.
So far as India is concerned NDM-1 could prove threat to the health of Indians. The reason is that people in India indulge in self medication; they buy certain antibiotics over the counter without doctor’s prescription sometimes. Moreover they are not customized to continue their treatment as advised by doctor and get down with same clinical problem again and again. The doctors believe that common antibiotics have become ineffective on Indian people.
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Anna I presume that first death was reported in August 2010 due to a bacteria expressing the NDM-1 enzyme was recorded as a Belgian man who had become infected while being treated in a hospital in Pakistan. The man couldn't survive despite being administered colistin, a powerful antibiotic. Man was hospitalised with a major leg injury and then repatriated to Belgium, but he was already infected". In your Blog you have told that India could be in risk because of self medication. If that is the case, in Uk and europe they don't have self medication system . How come they could be prone to this?
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