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Letter: Antibiotic crisis

Published 4 June 2014

As the accompanying report details (p 10), not only must new antibiotics compete with existing off-patent generics that are by comparison quite cheap, but maximising sales of the new drug only speeds up the development of resistance.

Issue no. 2972 published 7 June 2014

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