Introduction and geographic availability of new antibiotics approved between 1999 and 2014
Despite the urgent need for new, effective antibiotics, few antibiotics of value have entered the market during the past decades. Therefore, incentives have been developed to stimulate antibiotic R&D. For these incentives to be effective, geographic availability for recently approved antibiotics needs to be better understood.
In this study, we analyze geographic availability and market introduction of antibiotics approved between 1999 and 2014.