Sunday, 15 August 2010

A New Superbacteria


Bacterias are the most common disease everyone in the world have. Doctor bacterias look like the animal. They need foods. They need place, and they need a perfect life. So, if you understand them. What they want, it take easy to live with them.

NDM-1 (or New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase) is a gene mutation that arms many common and harmful bacteria like E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae with a resistance that can even withstand carbapenems, the antibiotics used as a last resort when more common drugs have no effect. What’s worse, the gene has been found on plasmids — particularly promiscuous bits of mobile DNA that can move easily between strains of bacteria. I
n many ways, this is it,” Walsh told the Guardian. “This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae.

In my opinion, NDM-1 are the new bacteria we just known ,but in standard medical practice antibiotics are the way we treat bacterial infections and even if an experimental treatment is found to be effective it will take a good deal of time to get it approved for widespread use.


http://www.popsci.com.au

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