UPDATE 1-Jazz Pharma to buy Italy's Gentium for $1 bln

Ireland-based Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc said it would buy Italian biotech company Gentium S.p.A. for about $1 billion to get access to Defitelio, a drug used for the treatment of a rare liver condition.

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