On Friday, the Taiwan the Centre for Disease Control Centre found that a 56-year-old Taiwanese man was infected with a gene known as NDM-1 which makes bacteria to resist most of the antibiotics. The man was operated for a kidney transplant at a hospital in Jiangxi Province in Eastern China.

The superbug is found to be travelling in 16 countries after it was first reported in India. It has the capacity to alter bacteria and make them to resist all the known antibiotics.

The CDC informed that the man may have got the infection from somewhere outside the country. However, the Department did not confirm over the assumption.

There was a formation of fluids in his abdominal cavity which was discovered after an MRI. The fluids were tested and found to have"klebsiella" bacteria which are resistant to carbapenems, one of the last antibiotic weapons with the doctors to fight against many bacterial infections.

In some other tests later conducted with the man proved that he was having the same strain of bacteria in his urine. After a number of tests the doctors at the hospital suspected that those also contained the NMD-1 gene. The CDC is keeping a vigil to find out the source of the infection that travelled into the country.