Declaration of interest
The author has no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties.
Reviewer disclosures
One referee declares having been a speaker for and/or has received research grants from Bayer and Merck (tedizolid), Melinta and Menarini (delafloxacin), Ferrer (ozenoxacin), AstraZeneca (avibactam), GlaxoSmithKline (gepoditacin) and Debiopharm (afabicin). He also has been member of the Governance Body of DRIVE-AB, a EU-sponsored program examining the economic aspects the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel antibiotics