English

colistin

Noun

colistin ‎(usually uncountable, plural colistins)

1. (medicine) A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic.
   • 2016, "The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.", Washington Post, Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis, May 26

     It's the first time this colistin-resistant strain has been found in a person in the United States.

Synonyms

• polymyxin E

Hypernyms

• polymyxin
• antibiotic

Coordinate terms

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