Taking readers from the research laboratory to the bedside, this Second Edition compiles essential information on the pharmacodynamics of all major classes of the antimicrobial armamentarium including penicillins, cephalosposorins, cephamycins, carbapenems, monobactams, aminoglycosides, quinolones, macrolides, antifungals, antivirals, and emerging

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Yes, you can access Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics in Theory and Clinical Practice by Charles H. Nightingale, Paul G. Ambrose, George L. Drusano, Takeo Murakawa, Charles H. Nightingale,Paul G. Ambrose,George L. Drusano,Takeo Murakawa in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Infectious Diseases. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

CRC Press

Year

2007

eBook ISBN

9781420017137

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Infectious Diseases

Front cover
Preface
Contents
Contributors
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Pharmacodynamics of Antimicrobials: General Concepts and Applications
Chapter 2. Applying Pharmacodynamics for Susceptibility Breakpoint Selection and Susceptibility Testing
Section II: Non-clinical Models of Infection
Chapter 3. In Vitro Dynamic Models as Tools to Predict Antibiotic Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 4. Animal Models of Infection for the Study of Antibiotic Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 5. The Predictive Value of Laboratory Tests for Efficacy of Antibiotic Combination Therapy
Section III: Antibacterial Agents
Chapter 6. -Lactam Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 7. Aminoglycosides
Chapter 8. Quinolones
Chapter 9. Glycopeptide Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 10. Macrolide, Axalide, and Ketolides
Chapter 11. Metronidazole and Clindamycin for Anaerobic Infections
Chapter 12. Streptogramins and Oxazolidinones
Chapter 13. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Tetracyclines
Section IV: Antiviral Agents
Chapter 14. The Clinical Pharmacology of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Chapter 15. Pharmacodynamics of Antivirals
Section V: Antifungal Agents
Chapter 16. Antifungal Agents Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Amphotericin B
Chapter 17. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Azoles
Chapter 18. Glucan Synthase Inhibitors
Section VI: Antimalarial Agents
Chapter 19. Antimalarial Agents
Section VII: Pharmacodynamics in Drug Development
Chapter 20. Human Pharmacodynamics of Anti-infectives Determination from Clinical Trial Data
Chapter 21. Applications of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Antimicrobial Global Drug Development
Chapter 22. Modeling of Toxicities Due to Antibiotics
Section VIII: Pharmacodynamics and Resistance
Chapter 23. Pharmacodynamics and Antibacterial Resistance
Section IX: Application of PK–PD to Clinical and Formulary Decisions
Chapter 24. The Principles of Pharmacoeconmics
Index

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