Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2012;10(8):917-934. Figure 1 represents the number of citations found in the PubMed database from 1960 to the middle of 2011 using either the search phrase 'colistin' or ...

A MARKED increase in the incidence of systemic infections due to gram-negative enteric bacilli has been observed in hospitalized patients since the advent of antibiotic therapy. 1,2 Many of these ...

COLISTIN is an antibiotic which, although similar to polymyxin B in chemical structure and antimicrobial spectrum, produces significantly fewer toxic reactions in man. The present report describes ...

As is customary before the impending death of important people drugs, WIRED has prepared an obituary for colistin—the antibiotic of last resort for curing otherwise drug-resistant superbug infections.

Increasingly, hospitalized patients contract infections that evade current antibiotics including colistin, long used as a last treatment option. The discovery of a new colistin variant might make it ...

Colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, is losing its power due to rising resistance—and the culprits might be hiding in your seafood dinner. A University of Georgia research team discovered ...

The alarm bells sounded on November 18, 2015. Antibiotic resistance is usually a slow-moving crisis, one of the reasons its danger can be hard to convey. One by one, over the years, the drugs used to ...

Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic critical for treating multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. Resistance to colistin heralds the emergence of truly pan-resistant infections. In a study ...

A team of researchers led by Osaka University examined the dissemination of colistin-resistant bacteria among residents of rural communities in Vietnam to find that the prevalence of ...

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