Sustainable Discovery and Development of Antibiotics - Is a Nonprofit Approach the Future?

N Engl J Med

From the Stritch School of Medicine and the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL (T.B.N.); the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (E.P.B.) and the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center (B.S.) - both in Los Angeles; the Providence Portland Medical Center and University of Oregon Health Sciences School of Medicine, Portland (D.N.G.); and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (J.G.B.).

Published: August 2019

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