Yun Cai, Rui Wang. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 25 July 2011
“Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow”, the theme for World Health Day 2011, shows the helplessness of the human predicament. Thus, any new antibiotics effective against strains resistant to existing drugs would gain worldwide attention. Tigecycline is one such antibiotic, with efficacy against many multidrug-resistant pathogens widely reported.
In The Lancet Infectious Diseases , Efthimia Tasina and colleagues 1 report their findings from a meta-analysis of tigecycline. This s …
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