In: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2017, vol. 36, no. 3, p. 415–420
Recently, plasmid-mediated and, therefore, transferable bacterial polymyxin resistance was discovered in strains from both humans and animals. Such a trait may widely spread geographically, while simultaneously crossing microbial species barriers. This may ultimately render the “last resort” polymyxin antibiotics therapeutically useless. Colistin is currently used to treat infections...
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