A major international study has found that more than 80 percent of Indian patients carry multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) – or disease causing deadly pathogens that don't respond to most available antibiotics – the highest rate recorded anywhere in the world.

These “superbugs” do not respond to many commonly used antibiotics, making infections harder and more expensive to treat. The findings highlight a growing antibiotic resistance crisis in India.

The research, published in The Lancet eClinical Medicine and released at the start of the WHO’s World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, examined over 1,200 patients from India, Italy, the Netherlands, and the US who underwent the same common endoscopic procedure.

India showed the most alarming results: 83 % of patients carried dr

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