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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...
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Polymyxins are antibiotics.
Polymyxins B and E (also
known as
colistin) are used in the
treatment of Gram-negative
bacterial infections. They work mostly...
- agar; it also
grows on HBT agar. A
selective medium for G. ****lis is
colistin-oxolinic acid
blood agar. G. ****lis is a
facultatively anaerobic Gram-variable...
- 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...
- non-clinical specimens. CNA agar
contains antibiotics (nalidixic acid and
colistin) that
inhibit Gram-negative organisms,
aiding in the
selective isolation...
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digestive problems.
Sulfonamides dissolved in
drinking water may be used.
Colistin can be an
effective antibiotic. Roach, N.; Kennerley, R. (2016). "Chinchilla...
- for
antibiotics with low
volume distribution (vancomycin, teicoplanin,
colistin), a
loading dose is
required to
achieve an
adequate therapeutic level to...
- 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...
