NDM 1 what is it?

• NDM-1(New Delhi metallo-ß-lactamase-1) is the gene (the DNA code) found in some types of bacteria
• This gene makes the bacteria produce an enzyme called a carbapenemase - making carbepenem antibiotics ineffective (as well as virtually all other antibiotics).
• Carbepenem antibiotics are extremely powerful and used to fight highly resistant bacteria (when other antibiotics have not worked).
• There are no current antibiotics to combat NDM-1
• There is no research in the pipeline on drugs to combat NDM-1
• A bacterium with the NDM-1 DNA code has the potential to be resistant to all our current antibiotics, as well as new antibiotics which may come into the market in the near future.