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28 February 2017Big Pharma

WHO lists deadly bacteria in bid to push antibiotics R&D

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens”, a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria which it claims pose the greatest threat to human health.

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