superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics from South Asia to
Britain and they could spread worldwide, researchers reported
Wednesday.
Many hospital infections that were already difficult to treat have
become even more impervious to drugs thanks to a recently discovered
gene that can jump across different species of bacteria.
This so-called NDM-1 gene was first identified last year by Cardiff
University's Timothy Walsh in two types of bacteria -- Klebsiella
pneumoniae and Escherichia coli -- in a Swedish patient admitted to
hospital in India.
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