Journal
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 56, Issue 12, Pages 1685-1694Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit152
Keywords
antibacterial agents; antimicrobials; gram-negative bacilli; drug development; clinical trials; antibiotic pipeline
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Funding
- Achaogen
- Actelion
- Astellas
- Basilea
- Bayer
- Cempra
- Cerexa
- Cubist-Calixa
- Durata
- FAB Pharma
- JJ
- Kalidex
- Meiji
- Merada
- Merck
- Nabriva
- Paratek
- Sanofi
- Theravance
- Toyama
- Wyeth/Pfizer
- United States government [1R01HD057956-02, 1R01FD003519-01, 1U10-HD45962-06, 1K24HD058735-01, HHSN267200700051C]
- Thrasher Research Foundation
- Astellas Pharma US
- AstraZeneca
- Pfizer
- Biosynexus
- Cubist Pharma
- Merck Co
- Medicines Co
- UCB Pharma
- Cubist Pharmaceuticals
- Trius
- Bayer Healthcare
- Cerexa/Forest/AZ
- NIH
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Merck Schering-Plough
- American Proficiency Institute
- Anacor
- Contrafect
- Cubist
- Daiichi
- Dipexium
- Enanta
- Furiex
- J&J (Ortho McNeil)
- LegoChem Biosciences Inc
- Meiji Seika Kaisha
- Novartis
- Pfizer (Wyeth)
- Rempex
- Rib-X Pharmaceuticals
- Seachaid
- Shionogi
- ThermoFisher
- Intercell
- Forest
- Public Health Service from the NIH [R01AI072219, R01AI063517]
- Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs
- Veterans Affairs Merit Review Program
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center VISN [10]
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Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, especially the ESKAPE pathogens, continue to increase in frequency and cause significant morbidity and mortality. New antimicrobial agents are greatly needed to treat infections caused by gram-negative bacilli (GNB) resistant to currently available agents. The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) continues to propose legislative, regulatory, and funding solutions to this continuing crisis. The current report updates the status of development and approval of systemic antibiotics in the United States as of early 2013. Only 2 new antibiotics have been approved since IDSA's 2009 pipeline status report, and the number of new antibiotics annually approved for marketing in the United States continues to decline. We identified 7 drugs in clinical development for treatment of infections caused by resistant GNB. None of these agents was included in our 2009 list of antibacterial compounds in phase 2 or later development, but unfortunately none addresses the entire spectrum of clinically relevant GNB resistance. Our survey demonstrates some progress in development of new antibacterial drugs that target infections caused by resistant GNB, but progress remains alarmingly elusive. IDSA stresses our conviction that the antibiotic pipeline problem can be solved by the collaboration of global leaders to develop creative incentives that will stimulate new antibacterial research and development. Our aim is the creation of a sustainable global antibacterial drug research and development enterprise with the power in the short term to develop 10 new, safe, and efficacious systemically administered antibiotics by 2020 as called for in IDSA's 10 x '20 Initiative.
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