New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1/Definition

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A definition or brief description of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1.

An enzyme that confers bacterial resistance to antibiotics of the carbepenem, often considered "last resort" drugs for multidrug resistant bacteria; the gene to manufacture it can be horizontally transferred among different species of pathogenic bacteria