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“This book focuses on key points of basic microbiology and antimicrobial pharmacotherapy and organizes them into a concise guide … must-have antimicrobial reference guide for all medical and pharmacy students.” – Lindsay McDonnell, PharmD for Doody’s Review Service
Antibiotics Simplified, Fourth Edition is a best-selling, succinct guide designed to bridge knowledge gained in basic sciences courses with clinical practice in infectious diseases. This practical text reviews basic microbiology and how to approach the pharmacotherapy of a patient with a presumed infection. It also contains concise Drug Class Reviews with an explanation of the characteristics of various classes of antibacterial drugs and antifungal drugs.
This text simplifies learning infectious disease pharmacotherapy and condenses the many facts that are taught about antibiotics into one quick reference guide. This guide will help students learn the characteristics of antibiotics and why an antibiotic is useful for an indication. With an understanding of the characteristics of the antibiotics, students will be able to make a logical choice to treat an infection more easily.
• Figures and Flow Charts
• Drug Class Reviews
• Spectra of Activity Chart
• Case Studies
• Index for Reference
The Fourth Edition will be revised and updated to include the following:
• 2 Color Design
• Spiral Binding
• Front Matter
• Principles of Antibiotic Stewardship
• Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
• Chapters on new antibacterials
• New Chapter of Lipoglycopeptides
• Additional HIV Agents
• Chapters on New HCV drugs (2 new classes)
• New TB medications
• Antifungal Spectra of Activity Appendix
Part 1 Considerations with Antibiotic Therapy
Chapter 1 The Wonderful World of Microbiology
Chapter 2 General Approach to Infectious Diseases
Chapter 3 Antibiotic Pharmacokinetics
Chapter 4 Antibiotic Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 5 Adverse Consequences of Antibiotic Use
Chapter 6 Antibiotic Resistance
Part 2 Antibacterial Drugs
Chapter 7 Beta-Lactams
Chapter 8 Glycopeptides and Short-Acting Lipoglycopeptides
Chapter 9 Long-Acting Glycopeptides
Chapter 10 Fluoroquinolones
Chapter 11 Aminoglycosides
Chapter 12 Tetracyclines and Glycylcyclines
Chapter 13 Macrolides and Ketolides
Chapter 14 Oxazolidinones
Chapter 15 Nitroimidazoles
Chapter 16 Nitrofurans and Fosfomycin
Chapter 17 Streptogramins
Chapter 18 Cyclic Lipopeptides
Chapter 19 Folate Antagonists
Chapter 20 Lincosamides
Chapter 21 Polymyxins
Chapter 22 Fidaxomicin
Part 3 Antimycobacterial Drugs
Chapter 23 Antimycobacterial Drugs
Chapter 24 Rifamycins
Chapter 25 Isoniazid
Chapter 26 Pyrazinamide
Chapter 27 Ethambutol
Part 4 Antifungal Drugs
Chapter 28 Antifungal Drugs
Chapter 29 Polyenes
Chapter 30 Antifungal Antimetabolites
Chapter 31 Azoles
Chapter 32 Echinocandins
Part 5 Antiviral Drugs
Chapter 33 Antiviral Drugs
Chapter 34 Anti-Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella-Zoster Virus Agents
Chapter 35 Anti-Cytomegalovirus Agents
Chapter 36 Neuraminidase Inhibitors
Chapter 37 Antiretrovial Drugs
Chapter 38 Antiviral Interferons
Chapter 39 Direct-Acting Anti-Hepatitis C Agents
Chapter 40 Ribavirin
Chapter 41 Hepatitis B Nucleoside Analogs
Part 6 Antiparasitic Drugs
Chapter 42 Antiparasitic Drugs
Chapter 43 Quinolines
Chapter 44 Atovaquone
Chapter 45 Benzimidazoles
Chapter 46 Pentamidine
Chapter 47 Ivermectin
Appendix 1 Selected Normal Human Flora
Appendix 2 Clinically Useful Spectra of Activity
Appendix 3 Empiric Regimens for Common Infections
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