Antibiotic and Chemotherapy 8/e

- Unique 3-part structure makes it easy to locate the
information you need on a specific treatment or infection
- Part I covers general aspects of treatment - these chapters
will be completely rewritten to be globally relevant
- Part II reviews every agent, giving antimicrobial activity,
pharmacokinetics, clinical use, available preparations
- Chapters in part II will be templated so that all contributors
are writing to the same level of detail and covering the same
points
- Part III deals with the treatment of particular infections,
with full clinical management details
- Clinical strategies for resistance control to be included
where relevant
- Future therapeutic developments





Part I: General Aspects
1. Historical Introduction
2. Modes of Action
3. The Problem of Resistance
4. Pharmacodynamics of Anti-Infectives: Target Delineation and
Target Attainment
5. Antibiotic Drugs and the Kidneys
6. Drug Interactions Involving Antimicrobial Agents
7. Antibiotics and the Immune System
8. General Principles of Chemotherapy
9. Laboratory Control of Antimicrobial Therapy
10. Principles of Chemoprophylaxis
11. Antibiotic Policies
12 Antibacterial Drug Discovery - What's In the Pipeline
13. Strategic and Regulatory Considerations in the Clinical
Development of Anti-Infectives

Part II: Agents
14. Aminoglycosides and Aminocyclitols
15. Beta-lactams: Cephalosporins
16. Beta-lactams: Penicillins
17. Other Beta-lactam Antibiotics
18. Chloramphenicol and Thiamphenicol
19. Diaminopyrimidines
20. Fosfomycin and Fosmidomycin
21. Fusidanes
22. Glycopeptides
23. Lincosamides
24. Macrolides
25. Mupirocin
26. Nitrofurans
27. Nitroimidazoles
28. Oxazolidinones
29. Quinolones
30. Rifamycins
31. Streptogramins
32. Sulphonamides
33. Tetracyclines
34. Miscellaneous Antibacterial Agents
35. Antifungal Agents
36. Antimycobacterial Agents
37. Anthelmintics
38. Antiprotozoal Agents
39. Antiretroviral Agents
40 Antiviral Agents


Part III: Treatment
41. Sepsis
42. Abdominal and Other Surgical Infections
43. Infections Associated with Neutropenia and Transplants
44. Infections in Intensive Care Patients
45. Infections Associated with Implanted Devices
46. Antiretroviral Therapy for AIDS
47. Infections of the Upper Respiratory Tract
48. Infections of the Lower Respiratory Tract
49. Endocarditis
50. Infections of the Gastro-Intestinal Tract
51. Hepatitis
52. Treatment of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
53. Bacterial Infections of the Central Nervous System
54. Infections of the Central Nervous System
55. Bone and Joint Infections
56. Infections of the Eye
57. Urinary Tract Infections
58. Infections in Pregnancy
59. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
60. Leprosy
61. Mycobacterial Infections
62. Fungal Infections
63. Zoonoses
64. Malaria
65. Other Protozoal Infections
66. Helminthic Infections