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In Our Time

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The Financial Drivers for Antibiotic Research

The number of companies involved in antibiotic research has dropped by about 20, 25% each decade for the last three decades. Companies are much more interested in having a drug which they can sell for a lifetime. So I think they need to be real financial drivers set up for the companies to encourage development.

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