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.

Synonyms

• polymyxin E

Hypernyms

• polymyxin

• antibiotic

Coordinate terms

• MCR-1/mcr-1 (a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins)

Anagrams

• clitions

Source: Wiktionary



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