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 ...

Among patients with carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections treated with colistin monotherapy , those infected with pathogens for which the colistin minimum inhibitory concentration ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colistin is one of the last-resort antibiotics in treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens. Unfortunately, the emergence of colistin-resistant gram-negative strains limit its ...

As the last defense against multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria, colistin sulfate’s clinical use, which is often empirical, risks resistance and adverse reactions. This study aimed to develop a ...

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 ...

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.

Experts have been warning for a while that the bell is tolling for the end of the antibiotic era, presaging a time when infections won’t be treatable with the drugs that have changed modern medicine.

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 ...

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 ...