Colistin, also known as polymyxin E, is an antibiotic medication used as a last-resort treatment for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections including...

The mobilized colistin resistance (mcr) gene confers plasmid-mediated resistance to colistin, one of a number of last-resort antibiotics for treating Gram-negative...

digestive problems. Sulfonamides dissolved in drinking water may be used. Colistin can be an effective antibiotic. Roach, N.; Kennerley, R. (2016). "Chinchilla...

carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii. Participants received either sulbactam/durlobactam or colistin (a comparator antibiotic) for up to 14 days. Both treatment arms also received...

Polymyxins are antibiotics. Polymyxins B and E (also known as colistin) are used in the treatment of Gram-negative bacterial infections. They work mostly...

Fluoroquinolones: particularly levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin Polymyxins: Colistin, Polymyxin B Aztreonam (monobactam) Aminoglycosides - particularly tobramycin...

countries. China once used colistin (an antibiotic) as growth promoter (subtherapeutic antibiotic use) but discovered a colistin-resistant form of E. coli...

agar; it also grows on HBT agar. A selective medium for G. vaginalis is colistin-oxolinic acid blood agar. G. vaginalis is a facultatively anaerobic Gram-variable...

oxidizer. Most strains do not grow on colistin nalidixic acid agar because, although they are resistant to colistin, they are susceptible to quinolones...

gram-negative pathogens in the ICU have invoked the re-emergence of colistin. However, colistin-resistant strains of K. pneumoniae have been reported in ICUs...