Economic Evaluations of New Antibiotics: The High Potential Value of Reducing Healthcare Transmission Through Decolonization
15 February 2021
Antibiotics that decolonize carriers of drug-resistant organisms can be highly cost-effective when considering indirect benefits within populations vulnerable to outbreaks. Public health could benefit from finding ways to incentivize development of decolonizing antibiotics in the US, where drugs with unclear direct benefits to recipients would pose difficulties in achieving FDA approval and financial benefit to the developer.
Further reading: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Author(s): Damon J A Toth, Matthew H Samore, Richard E Nelson
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Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition |
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Evotec |
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JSS University |
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