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 ...

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 ...

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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although it is fortunate that older options such as colistin are still available, it is also problematic because ...

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 ...

I mentioned on Monday that this past week was intended by the CDC, WHO and other health authorities to be a global awareness week for antibiotic resistance. Alarming news that came out of China at the ...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an order prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of colistin and its formulations for food-producing animals, poultry, aqua farming and ...

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