The Wrong Cure: Financial Incentives for Unimpressive New Antibiotics.

J Infect Dis

Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Published: May 2021

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