Addressing the Superbug Concern: Phage Therapy Could Beat Drug Resistant Illnesses
In 2008, a superbug caught from a New Delhi hospital claimed the life of a Swedish patient. British scientists who found this “superbug” in New Delhi’s public water supply, named it New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-1 after the Indian capital, causing much hue and cry in India. The drug resistant gene including its new variants has since