Superbug in Delhi water: CM chairs high level meet

Experts assure that there is no cause of worry

GN Bureau | April 13, 2011



Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit chaired a high level meeting on Wednesday to review the Lancet Study showing alleged presence of superbug (NDM-1 gene in cholera and dysentery bacteria) in the samples of drinking water taken from Delhi.

Experts from Maulana Azad Medical College, directorate of health services, National Centre for Disease Control, and Delhi Jal Board attended the meeting.
They were of the view that there had not been any evidence of increase in drug resistance in cholera and other diarrhoea causing bacteria and these continue to remain susceptible to the commonly used antibiotics. 

They said that there was no clinical and epidemiological evidence to suggest any public health impact of the presence of NDM1 containing bacteria in environmental samples.

The experts from NCDC have been monitoring the drug resistance pattern of the cholera bacteria isolates obtained from cases of cholera patients admitted in Delhi for the last many years and they have also not found presence of carbapenem resistance in any of the samples.

 

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