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Boston University School of Law

Faculty Scholarship

2018

United States

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Introduction And Geographic Availability Of New Antibiotics Approved Between 1999 And 2014, Cecilia Kållberg, Christine Årdal, Hege Salvesen Blix, Eili Klein, Elena Martinez, Morten Lindbæk, Kevin Outterson, John-Arne Røttingen, Ramanan Laxminarayan Oct 2018

Introduction And Geographic Availability Of New Antibiotics Approved Between 1999 And 2014, Cecilia Kållberg, Christine Årdal, Hege Salvesen Blix, Eili Klein, Elena Martinez, Morten Lindbæk, Kevin Outterson, John-Arne Røttingen, Ramanan Laxminarayan

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Despite the urgent need for new, effective antibiotics, few antibiotics of value have entered the market during the past decades. Therefore, incentives have been developed to stimulate antibiotic R&D. For these incentives to be effective, geographic availability for recently approved antibiotics needs to be better understood. In this study, we analyze geographic availability and market introduction of antibiotics approved between 1999 and 2014.