coli and K. pneumoniae, including strains resistant to beta-lactams and colistin, an antibiotic regarded as last-resort therapy.1 Enterobacteriaceae have been highlighted by the World Health ...

In a renewed effort to combat the rising global threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has limited Active Pharmaceutical ...

Introduction: Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens are an ongoing threat to human and animal health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), colistin is considered the last resort antibiotic ...

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 ...

When that happens, doctors have to fall back on a very old antibiotic called colistin, which infectious diseases doctors have stopped using for about 40 years because of its high toxicity that ...

These bacteria, resistant to nearly all antibiotics including colistin, were analyzed in a recent study, revealing their dangerous combination of hypervirulence and multidrug resistance. The ...

Research from the Oxford INEOS Institute for Antimicrobial Research revealed that newborns in Nigerian hospitals carried bacteria resistant to colistin, one of the last effective antibiotics.