—Albert Einstein Included among the Gram-positive pathogens are methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and E. faecialis, and the rapidly growing mycobacteria. In the past five years, however, no fewer than four novel agents have been approved that have clinical activity versus these bacteria. It is really among the multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria that we find growing unmet medical need, and only a single new agent has been approved in well over a decade. —Steven Projan, Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobials Many people believe that there will always be antibiotics and that if the ones we have now aren’t working, others will be discovered that will work just as well, so no need to worry. The truth, unfortunately, is very different. There are virtually no new antibiotics in development, and there are unlikely to be. Pharmaceutical companies have almost completely given up the search for them. There are a number of reasons for this, the main one being, of course, financial.
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