India’s AMR surveillance network is primarily built on a few dozen tertiary-care hospitals. The problem is not the quality of data from these tertiary centres; it is the narrowness of the sample. A surveillance system built only on a few dozen largest hospitals cannot speak for the entire country
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Genomic surveillance reveals resistance among key pathogens like Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Vibrio cholerae is rising rapidly, with susceptibility to commonly used antibiotics often falling below 20%
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The discovery of the New Delhi mettallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) in 51 of 151 sewage samples and two of 50 drinking water
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If the first paper on NDM-1 superbug published last year created an uproar in India, the second paper published on
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Gram-negative bacterial strains with NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-1) gene, also called the superbug, have now been detected in drinking water
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Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae strains resistant to carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic, and one of the last lines of treatment for infections caused
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