Antibacterial agents: back to the future? Can we live with only colistin, co-trimoxazole and fosfomycin?

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J. Carlet and J.-L. Mainardi 1) Consultant for the African Partnership for Patient Safety (APPS) project, WHO, and President of the World Alliance against Multi-resistant Bacteria, Paris, 2) Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, LRMA, Equipe 12, Universite Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, 3) Universite Pierre et Marie Curie –Paris, Paris, 4) INSERM, Paris and 5) AP-HP, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France E-mail: jeancarlet@gmail.com