Roche poised for deal to get back into antibiotics: paper

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Roche poised for deal to get back into antibiotics: paper

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/roche-poised-deal-back-antibiotics-paper-131030180--finance.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UNPh9sMigs3ARKi1WlIgLA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-03T131030Z_1_CBRE9A210M000_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-ROCHE-ANTIBIOTICS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File of the logo of the Swiss drugmaker Roche is seen on a factory in Burgdorf" align="left" title="File of the logo of the Swiss drugmaker Roche is seen on a factory in Burgdorf" border="0" /></a>Swiss drugmaker Roche is poised to get back into antibiotics by taking over a candidate drug being developed by privately-owned Polyphor, the NZZ am Sonntag paper said on Sunday, without citing a source for the information. Roche's Chief Executive Severin Schwan said last month that the company was interested in &quot;bolt-on acquisitions&quot;. But a company spokesman declined to confirm the report on Sunday, saying the firm did not comment on rumors. &quot;We have an open and pragmatic approach to R&amp;D and have mentioned in the past that antibiotics is an area where a lot of interesting science is going on,&quot; Roche spokesman Daniel Grotzky said in an emailed reply to a Reuters enquiry.</p><br clear="all"/>

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