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Bacteria for Which Drugs Are Urgently Needed


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Meet WHO’s dirty dozen: The 12 bacteria for which new drugs are most urgently needed.

You may never have heard of Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or the Enterobacteriaceae—but these three killers top a new list, drawn up by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, of bacteria for which new drugs are desperately needed. Unveiled today, the list contains 12 bacteria and bacterial families, with the top three making up the category “critical.”

The list “is not meant to scare people about new superbugs, but to signal to researchers and pharmaceutical companies what their priorities should be,” Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO’s assistant director-general for health systems and innovation, told a press conference today. The crucial drugs are unlikely to be big moneymakers for companies that develop them, she notes, so governments and health agencies need to cooperate to boost the chances that they will be developed in time.

Read more: Science Magazine

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