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In the last decades of the
20th century, new diseases began emerging at the unprecedented rate of
one or more per year. From 1973 to 2000, 39 infectious agents capable of
causing human disease were newly identified. Even more worryingly, the
rate of drug failure due to the development of microbial resistance
outpaced scientific discovery of replacement drugs.
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