According to a comprehensive report on August 11, 2010, British and Indian researchers issued a report on Wednesday saying that some patients who went to India for surgery and other treatments were infected with a new type of super bacteria. The superbug known as NDM-1, which is resistant to almost all antibiotics, is making its way from South Asia to the UK and could spread around the world.

This superbug, called NDM-1, was first identified last year by Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University in the UK. He discovered NDM-1 from two types of bacteria found in a Swedish patient. The patient had been hospitalized in India.

The superbug spans different bacterial species, making many patients infected in hospitals more resistant to antibiotics, researchers say. NDM-1 pathogens are even resistant to carbapenem antibiotics, which are often considered a last resort emergency treatment for drug-resistant conditions. Currently, several cases of infection have emerged in South Asia and the United Kingdom. Researchers are determining how common NDM-1 bacteria are infecting these patients.

After examining suspected patients, researchers confirmed 44 patients in Chennai, India, and 26 patients in Haryana, India. Meanwhile, researchers have also found traces of the superbug in Bangladesh, Pakistan and the UK. Among them, the number of patients in the UK reached 37. Some British patients have recently traveled to India or Pakistan for plastic surgery.

The British medical journal "The Lancet" published a research report saying: "In addition to the United Kingdom, India also provides plastic surgery to other European countries and Americans. The NDM-1 superbug may spread around the world."< /p>

The bacteria are resistant to all antibiotics except tigecycline and colistin. In some patients, even these two antibiotics don't work.

Most crucially, researchers say, it can replicate and move freely within bacteria, giving the bacterium the astonishing potential to spread and mutate. Researchers said: "Air travel and migration allow this superbug to spread rapidly between different countries and continents. Most of the countries where this bacteria already exists have not yet been discovered."

According to the British " The Guardian reported on the 11th that international travel and medical tourism have led to the rapid spread of drug-resistant bacteria around the world, which may herald the end of the antibiotic era and make it difficult for doctors to treat patients with bacterial infections.