Editorial: TB or not TB
Published in The Hindu on April 24, 2012 With tuberculosis killing two people every three minutes and the number of people with drug-resistant TB increasing manifold every passing day, even…
Category: Superbug NDM-1
Editorial: The superbug effect
Published in The Hindu on April 24, 2011 The discovery of the New Delhi mettallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) in 51 of 151 sewage samples and two of 50 drinking water samples taken…
Superbug NDM-1: 2010 results confirmed by others
Published in The Hindu on April 14, 2011 If the first paper on NDM-1 superbug published last year created an uproar in India, the second paper published on April 7…
NDM-1 superbugs found in seepage, tap water
Published in The Hindu on April 7, 2011 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 and seepage…
Editorial: Superbug NDM-1 threat
Published in The Hindu on August 16, 2010 Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae strains resistant to carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic, and one of the last lines of treatment for infections caused by Gram-negative…
All authors ‘approved final version’ of superbug report: Lancet
Published in The Hindu on August 15, 2010 All the authors, including the Indian researchers, involved in the project approved the final version of the paper on the superbug that…
