No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. There are two forms of colistin available in the market: colistin sulfate (tablets or syrup for oral use and powder for ...
Currently, the very last line of defence against the toughest multi-drug resistant bacteria is the antibiotic colistin. In many parts of the world, farmers routinely feed colistin to livestock as ...
Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic that is usually only used for severe infections with resistant bacteria. This is due to its severe kidney-damaging side effects, which occur in about 30% of ...
The reduction in treatment options due to the increased prevalence beta-lactamases that break down beta-lactam antibiotics has led to the increased use of polymyxin antibiotics such as colistin.
This means that colistin too may soon be ineffective against many kinds of multidrug-resistant bacteria. In the meantime, the influence of Tsutomu Watanabe had reached far. A young American named ...