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Now Superbug in Delhi’s Water, not Hospitals

Posted by Lakshmi Gopal on Thu, 07 Apr 2011

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It is summer and time for bacterial infections to spread in the Indian subcontinent. Delhiites are especially wary, as a new study says that potable water used for drinking and cooking may contain the NDM-1 or Superbug. The research has been published in the medical journal ‘Lancet’.It was already known a few years ago that NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-ß-lactamase-1) was a gene or an enzyme produced by certain bacteria, which allowed them to neutralise the harmful effects of carbapenems, one of the ... Read More

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