"Colistin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Cyclic polypeptide antibiotic from Bacillus colistinus. It is composed of Polymyxins E1 and E2 (or Colistins A, B, and C) which act as detergents on cell membranes. Colistin is less toxic than Polymyxin B, but otherwise similar; the methanesulfonate is used orally.
| Descriptor ID |
D003091
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.345.566.780.110 D10.477.750.110 D12.644.050.600.110 D12.644.641.780.110 D12.776.543.695.054.600.110
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| Concept/Terms |
Colistin- Colistin
- Colisticin
- Polymyxin E
- Colimycin
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Colistin" by people in Profiles.
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Kigen C, Muraya A, Wachira J, Musila L. The first report of the mobile colistin resistance gene, mcr-10.1, in Kenya and a novel mutation in the phoQ gene (S244T) in a colistin-resistant Enterobacter cloacae clinical isolate. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Feb 06; 12(2):e0185523.
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Hammad AM, Gonzalez-Escalona N, El Tahan A, Abbas NH, Koenig SSK, Allu?-Guardia A, Eppinger M, Hoffmann M. Pathogenome comparison and global phylogeny of Escherichia coli ST1485 strains. Sci Rep. 2022 11 02; 12(1):18495.
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Hammad AM, Hoffmann M, Gonzalez-Escalona N, Abbas NH, Yao K, Koenig S, Allu?-Guardia A, Eppinger M. Genomic features of colistin resistant Escherichia coli ST69 strain harboring mcr-1 on IncHI2 plasmid from raw milk cheese in Egypt. Infect Genet Evol. 2019 09; 73:126-131.