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Published online 18 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030915-6
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Drug companies snub antibiotics
Pipeline threatens to run dry as pharma concentrate on chronic illness.
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Major drug companies are pulling out of antibiotic development - and their timing couldn't be worse, a leading meeting on infectious disease was told this week.
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