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In a recent study published in the journal The Lancet’s Microbe, researchers investigate Enterobacterales species resistance to colistin in Pakistan. Moreover, the researchers report on colistin import and export, use, and socioeconomic variables associated with colistin resistance. Study: International manufacturing and trade in colistin, its implications in colistin resistance and One Health global policies: a microbiological, economic, and anthropological study. Image Credit: Ground Picture / Shutterstock.com Background Studies have reported that colistin use in farming in China has driven Mcr-1-mediated resistance in Escherichia coli (MCRPEC), particularly in animal feed and prophylaxis. As a result, a ban on the agricultural use...
