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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2015

Challenges and solutions for clinical development of new antibacterial agents: results of a survey among pharmaceutical industry professionals.

Esther Bettiol, Jeffrey D Wetherington, Nicola Schmitt, Stephan Harbarth, COMBACTE Consortium

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cost Drivers of a Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Phase 3 Clinical Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018
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  4. Antibiotics needed to treat multidrug-resistant infections in neonates.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2022
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  9. Metallotherapeutics development in the age of iron-clad bacteria.Metallomics : integrated biometal science · 2020
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  12. Optimizing the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials for Antibacterials Against Multidrug-resistant Organisms: A White Paper From COMBACTE's STAT-Net.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Esther BettiolInfection Control Program and Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland esther.bettiol@hcuge.ch.
Jeffrey D WetheringtonQuantitative Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Nicola SchmittBiometrics and Information Sciences, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, United Kingdom.
Stephan HarbarthInfection Control Program and Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
COMBACTE Consortium

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the number of antibacterial medicines in the pipeline remains low, we anonymously surveyed pharmaceutical industry professionals on challenges and solutions for clinical development of these agents. Challenges were reported primarily as financial and regulatory. For multidrug-resistant organisms, there are needs for rapid diagnostic tests, new regulatory guidance, and adaptation of endpoints/trial designs. Regulators and public/private initiatives are addressing these challenges to help ensure that proposed solutions have the support of all involved stakeholders.

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsClinical ProtocolsSurveys and QuestionnairesDrug DiscoveryDrug IndustryDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialHumansAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID25918147
PMCPMC4468719

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