A Call To Action On Antibiotic Development
Executive Summary
Recent comments by US FDA’s top infectious disease review manager about the need for new ideas to incentive development of antibiotics should be a call to action for biopharma companies and patient advocates who do not normally consider infectious disease as part of the portfolio.
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