Hyderabad: New drug-resistant gene found in waters polluted with pharma waste

HYDERABAD: State capital, Hyderabad, is now home to a new resistance gene, named as ‘blaRSA2’, that can render useless even Carbapenems, the type of antibiotics which are used as last-resort medicines by doctors to treat patients suffering from infections caused due to tough-to-treat, multi-drug resistant bacteria. Moreover, the new gene has been found to be …