Book Description

Manual of Antibiotics and Infectious Diseases: Treatment and Prevention was designed for health-care professionals involved in the daily care of patients with infectious diseases. The book covers antibiotics currently available, their doses, and their dose adjustments. It explains what to do when faced with renal failure, as well as empirical, prophylactic, and definitive antibiotic therapies--everything from bacteria resistance to AIDS therapies. A new section on hospital epidemiology and infection control is included in this Ninth Edition.
A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

Book Info

Univ. of California, San Francisco. Manual designed for students, residents, and clinicians involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious disease. Previous edition: c1995. Covers antibiotics, dosages, and recommendations. Softcover. DNLM: Antibiotics--therapeutic use--Handbooks.

Synopsis

This manual provides information and tables on antibiotics and infectious diseases, dosages, and recommendations for empiric, prophylactic, and antibiotic therapies. The manual is useful for students, house staff, practicing physicians, and other health professionals. To address the problem of bacterial resistance, this ninth edition contains a new section on hospital epidemiology and infection control. Sections on HIV/AIDS are revised. Conte is professor of epidemiology and director of hospital epidemiology and infection control at the University of California-San Francisco. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Sect.  1 Antibiotics
Sect.  2 Empiric Antibiotic Therapy
Sect.  3 Organism-Directed Therapy
Sect.  4 Antibiotic Prophylaxis
Sect.  5 AIDS and HIV Infection
Sect.  6 Antibiotic Susceptibilities
Sect.  7 Immunobiologic Agents and Vaccines
Sect.  8 Drugs for Parasitic Infection
Sect.  9 Tuberculosis
Sect. 10A Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Recommendations for the Use of Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Vaccines
Sect. 10B HIV Prevention Through Early Detection and Treatment of Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
Sect. 11 Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control
Subject Index