New type of bacteria with antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 found

New type of bacteria with antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 found

MIBU, Japan - Dokkyo Medical University Hospital director Toshimitsu Kitajima (L) and other doctors speak at a press conference at the hospital in Tochigi Prefecture on Sept. 6, 2010. The hospital said a new variant of superbug with the NDM-1 gene, which is resistant to most antibiotics, has been found in a Japanese male patient in his 50s at the hospital in Tochigi Prefecture following his return from India, the first case of such a superbug in Japan.

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