An academic at university of basrah publishes a scientific research in a scientific journal

Dr. Eyad Qassem Mahdi Al-Makki the academic at Faculty of pharmacy, university of basrah published a scientific research titled (NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli in an urban river in Montpellier, France) in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agent to bookstore ELSEVIER has a factor of 4.259.

Dr. Eyad Qassem Mahdi Al-Makki  said that New Delhi metallo-βlactamase (NDM) which produced by E.coli where makes it resistant to antibiotics class of β-lactam  , which leads to limited options for treatment of hospital-acquired infections, especially in relation to resistance to Carbapenems Which represents the last choice to treat those infections ,The risk of this disease is due to its rapid spread globally, discovery of new isolates producing this enzyme, which negatively affects the general health of humans.so Al-Makki added that the isolation of NDM-5 from E.coli in running water near a hospital in the city of Montpellier (France) is the first registration at the level of the European Union and used modern molecular techniques to isolate and purify the gene responsible for the production of this enzyme has been registered in the World Bank of Genetics National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).