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How should we respond to the emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance in humans and animals?
30 Nov 2016
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OBJECTIVE: The widespread use of antibiotics in humans and animals has contributed to growing rates of antibiotic resistance. Previously treatable bacterial infections now require the last line of antibiotics or are untreatable. The current antibiotic of last resort for carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections is often colistin. Evidence for the shifting pattern of colistin resistance and how the...
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