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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Colistin is typically associated with substantial excess acute kidney injury that is apparent within 72 hours of ...

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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.

In all the latest bad news about bacteria becoming highly resistant -- through carbapenem resistance, or the "Indian supergene" NDM-1-- there has been one hopeful thread: All of the organisms have ...

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.

A common wildflower used in folk medicine may help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria and boost last-resort drugs to fight ...

BOSTON—Colistin is a treatment option for infections caused by multidrug resistant gram negative organisms. New findings presented at the 50 th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and ...

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 ...

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 ...