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Figure 1: Antibiotics sales by class in 2009 in US$ billions.
Figure 2: Current status of antibiotic R&D activity at each development stage.

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Hamad, B. The antibiotics market. Nat Rev Drug Discov 9, 675–676 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3267

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