Essentials of Antimicrobial Pharmacology: A Guide to Fundamentals for Practice

✍ Scribed by Paul H. Axelsen MD (auth.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For many medical students and physicians, the task of quickly obtaining sufficient, accurate, and up-to-date information about the pharmacology of antimicrobials often involves consulting either lengthy textbooks or inadequate tabular guides. In Essentials of Antimicrobial Pharmacology: A Guide to Fundamentals for Practice, Dr. Axelsen superbly addresses this problem by concisely summarizing the essential medical data concerning the leading antimicrobials used in fighting infectious diseases and clearly illustrating their mechanisms of action. The agents described range from antibacterial and antifungal to antiparasitic and antiviral agents, and include immunomodulators and immunizing agents. For each drug discussed, the book allows rapid access to the essential facts concerning its structure and mechanism of action, the spectrum of its activity, its pharmacokinetics, its adverse effects, and its resistance. Background discussions explain the fundamentals of measuring antibiotic effect, administering antibiotics, distribution and elimination, sensitivity testing, and dose-response relationships.
Essentials of Antimicrobial Pharmacology: A Guide to Fundamentals for Practice provides medical students, physicians, and allied health professionals with rapid access to the core principles of antimicrobial pharmacology, and a foundation for decisions about the use of antimicrobials in daily practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Antibacterial Agents....Pages 13-63
Antifungal Agents....Pages 65-72
Antiparasitic Agents....Pages 73-86
Antiviral Agents....Pages 87-107
Immunomodulators and Immunizing Agents....Pages 109-121
Back Matter....Pages 123-141

✦ Subjects

Pharmacology/Toxicology; Infectious Diseases