In many reports, NDM-1 has been described as a “super bacteria”, but in fact NDM-1 is not a “bacteria” but a new gene. It does not directly make people sick, but they can each other in the bacterial “infection”, as if to wear them “upgrade combat gear,” like, resistant to all antibiotics, including even carbapenem (carbapenem). The latter is regarded as the lowest drug resistance, treatment of a wide range of most antibiotics.

NDM-1 full name of the “New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase -1″ because the first found in India and Pakistan in South Asia, NDM-1’s name where it was found to contain. Currently, NDM-1 has spread from South Asia all the way to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and other countries, more than 170 people worldwide have been infected, Britain alone has more than 50 cases; and August 14 Belgium 1 man dies, the world’s first deaths caused by it.

NDM-1 drug resistance genes

In modern medicine, antibiotics are used in the course of treatment for all illnesses. The most common antibiotic penicillin is, they do have a ring structure, play a role in blocking replication of bacteria. However, NDM-1 after entry of bacteria, but it can help bacteria to produce a highly efficient enzyme, will break the ring of antibiotics, so antibiotics ineffective.