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…
A Science and Technology Blog
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…