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India - Superbug at Mumbai?s doorstep - 20 infected

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Superbug at Mumbai?s doorstep

Published: Tuesday, Apr 26, 2011

Clinical microbiologists at Pune?s Sassoon hospital and National Centre of Cell Science (NCCS) have found as many as 20 people infected with the NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1) gene since the last two months. Given the highly contagious nature of the pathogen, those infected need to be isolated in special cells to prevent its spread.

The scientists collected samples of blood, urine and puss from 3,172 patients at the hospital and found that 885 had gram negative bacilli (bacteria which cause a majority of infections). Of these 885, as many as 181 were resistant to the carbapenem family of drugs, while 20 were detected with the NDM-1 gene.

?Dr Renu Bharadwaj of NCCS had selected some samples. In 20 of them, the sequence showed homology to NDM-1,? said Dr Yogesh Shouche, senior scientist at NCCS.

read more - dnaindia
 
Re: India - Superbug at Mumbai?s doorstep - 20 infected

Anuradha Mascarenhas

Posted: Sat Apr 23 2011,

?Superbug gene detected in 20 patients?

The controversial multi-drug-resistant superbug, the origin of which has been a matter of debate with the Centre taking strong exception to it being named after New Delhi, researchers from the government-run B J Medical College (BJMC) and the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), in preliminary findings of a study to find the New Delhi metallobeta lactamase-1 (NDM-1) incidence in Pune, reported the strain in the city.

Ever since an article in medical journal The Lancet on August 11 said the superbug was detected in a Swedish patient who returned from New Delhi after treatment, hence the name, the Centre has been contesting it. The Lancet recently followed it up with another article claiming NDM-I presence in Delhi?s water supply, which was again rejected by the Centre and the Delhi government as wrong.

There, however, was a turnaround in the attitude from complete denial of the strain originating in Delhi, amid allegations it was a ploy to hurt medical tourism, to action mode, with the Central Health Ministry going on the backfoot and waking up to the threat and the Indian Council of Medical Research inviting applications for research into the superbug.

read more - indianexpress
 
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