The World Health Organization has reiterated its warning that there is a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Only eight of the 51 new antibiotics and biologicals in clinical development to treat antibiotic resistant pathogens are innovative treatments that could add value to the current drugs on offer, a new report from the agency has found.1 Most of the drugs in the clinical pipeline are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are only short term solutions, …

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世卫组织警告说，正在研发的新型抗生素很少

世界卫生组织再次警告说，正在严重缺乏正在开发的新抗生素来对抗日益增长的抗药性的威胁。该机构的一份新报告发现，在临床开发的用于治疗抗药性病原体的51种新抗生素和生物制剂中，只有八种是创新的治疗方法，可以为现有药物增加价值。1临床上正在开发的大多数药物是修改现有类别的抗生素，仅是短期解决方案，…