Although the use of colistin is considered to be effective, other antibiotics are often used in combination with colistin. Many studies have shown good outcomes for patients treated with colistin ...

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 ...

Inhaled colistin has been widely used for years 8, but it is not formally approved by the FDA, and clinicians have also tried various intravenous antibiotics off-label via the nebulized route in ...

Colistin began being used in the 1950s to treat serious lung ... It is also used routinely by cystic fibrosis patients because it is available in a form which can be inhaled into the lungs, as well as ...

Colistin is a broad-spectrum, 'last resort' antibiotic used to treat multidrug-resistant infections in humans. Despite its critical importance in human health, it used to be widely used in ...

Widespread resistance to β-lactams and other antibiotics has resulted in the use of colistin, a polymyxin class antibiotic, as a last resort drug for treatment of multi-drug resistant infections. The ...

The bacteria were resistant to an antibiotic called colistin, but neither the babies nor their mothers had been treated with this drug. Colistin is one of the last remaining antibiotics that is ...

Plasmid borne genes encoding modifying enzymes such as beta-lactamases, that confer resistance to penicillins and related antibiotics, or, more recently, phosphoethanolamine transferases, that confer ...

The Indian government is reportedly looking at banning the antibiotic Colistin, which is used as a growth-promoting agent for animals, LiveMint reported. The drug in question is linked to ...