colistin
English
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colistin
Noun
colistin (usually uncountable, plural colistins)
- (medicine) A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic.
- 2016, "The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.", Washington Post, Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis, May 26
- It's the first time this colistin-resistant strain has been found in a person in the United States.
- 2016, "The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.", Washington Post, Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis, May 26
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- MCR-1/mcr-1 (a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins)
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