Why Won’t MDs Prescribe New Antibiotics?

Although new broad-spectrum and highly effective antibiotics with favorable safety profiles have been approved and others are on the horizon, there seems to be some hesitancy about using them. At the 2019 MAD-ID (Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases) annual meeting, infectious disease experts reviewed the data on some of these new agents and their potential roles.

 

“We have new gram-negative antimicrobials in several different areas of importance. However, now we are running