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 Californ

Published: August 2019


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