For after years of paying scant attention to infectious diseases, pharmaceutical companies have begun to comb through the vast chemical libraries assembled over the past decade in search of new antimicrobial agents.

• 多年来对感染疾病注意太少，但是为寻找新的抗菌素医药公司已开始像梳篦一般对这些巨大的化学药物库进行筛选工作，即把在过去10年内研究的新抗菌素药进行了筛