Doctors are about to get worried as experts have predicted that in the years to come there will be a power given to bacteria by a little loop of genes to resist virtually all known antibiotics and this is spreading quickly.

A string of genes called a transmissible genetic element; they come on the equivalent of a genetic memory stick. These gene strings with other species can be swapped by bacteria, unlike higher forms of life and often do so with wild abandon.

Dr. Robert Moellering of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston predicts that the one that is being called New Delhi metallobeta-lactamase 1 or NDM-1 for short will cause more trouble in the coming years.

He said, "What makes this enzyme so frightening is not only its intrinsic ability to destroy most known beta-lactam antibiotics but also the company it keeps."

There were reports of infections that involved NDM-1 in people in Britain, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, as reported by British researchers.

It was further added that in addition, isolates of Enterobacteriaceae-containing NDM-1 have now been characterized in the United States, Singapore, China, India, Australia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Turkey, France, Taiwan, and the Nordic countries.