Antibiotics are fundamental to modern medicine, essential for treating everything from routine skin infections to strep throat, and for protecting vulnerable patients receiving chemotherapy or being treated in intensive care units. But the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria—a result of decades of overuse in animal agriculture and human medicine combined with a lack of new drug development and innovation—has placed humanity on the precipice of what public health leaders call a “post-antibiotic” world in which even the most simple surgical procedure could have deadly consequences.
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Antibiotic Use in Human Health Care
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Antibiotics Currently in Clinical Development
As of December 2014, an estimated 37 new antibiotics1 that have the potential to treat serious bacterial infections are in clinical development for the U.S. market. The success rate for drug development is low; at best, only 1 in 5 candidates that enter human testing will be approved for patients.* This snapshot of the antibiotic pipeline will be updated periodically as products advance or are... Read More
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Tracking the Pipeline of Antibiotics in Development
Drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs, present a serious and worsening threat to human health. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, 2 million Americans acquire serious infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year, and 23,000 of them die.1 Doctors routinely encounter patients with infections that do not respond to available treatment, and when new... Read More
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