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Armata Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) Designation for AP-SA02
Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: ARMP) ("Armata" or the "Company"), a late clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of high-purity, pathogen-specific bacteriophage therapeutics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant and difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") has granted AP-SA02, the Company's Staphylococcus aureus ("S. aureus") multi-phage product candidate, for intravenous use as a Qua
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