Recent news on Colistin

Most-at-Risk Nursing Home Residents To Be Tested for 'Superbugs'  -  Apr 23, 2007
Johns Hopkins Gazette,And she says other hospitals have even encountered MDR-ACIN that is also resistant to Colistin, leaving no available treatment options.

Most-at-risk Nursing Home Residents To Be Tested For "Superbugs"  -  Apr 22, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Maragakis, an assistant professor at Hopkins, points out that of the most widely available drugs used to fight Acinetobacter, frequently only one, Colistin

A new enemy from Iraq  -  Mar 19, 2007
New Haven Register (subscription),So, US doctors are turning to colistin and other older antibiotics that were shelved because of their toxicity. Yale researchers using gene-mapping

Wounded troops face new enemy: bacteria  -  Mar 10, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,Last resort: Colistin, one of the oldest antibiotics known to medicine. Highly toxic. Can cause kidney and nervous system damage.

Experts fear increase in drug-resistant infections here  Mar 3, 2006
...infections. Doctors have been forced to resort to an old drug, colistin, which had previously been abandoned as too toxic. Aspergillus ... - Globe and Mail,

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