Drug resistance: the big global health crisis in Covid’s shadow

While pathogens have developed resistance to treatment, there have been no truly new antibiotics in 30 years. Why?

27 January 2022 - 20:40
By Therese Raphael

While pathogens have developed resistance to treatment, there have been no truly new antibiotics in 30 years. Why?

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