Manual of Antibiotics and Infectious Diseases: Treatment and Prevention

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002 - 755 pages

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.

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Contents

Table 1
1
Table 11
11
Table 1
14
Table 1
22
Empiric Antibiotic Therapy
59
16
60
Table 3
67
1
88
5 The maximum number of cases of specified vaccinepreventable
217
9
221
8 Guidelines for spacing the administration of immune globulin
232
3
233
Rabies preexposure prophylaxis scheduleUnited States 1999
296
Rabies postexposure prophylaxis scheduleUnited States 1999
304
23
352
33
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95
Antibiotic Prophylaxis
99
7
118
AIDS and HIV Infection
132
7
140
1 Determining the need for HIV postexposure prophylaxis PEP
155
27 Effects of opportunistic infection medications on drugs
168
1 Susceptibility of S pneumoniae to selected antimicrobials and
173
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175
8 Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other
180
1 Immunobiologics distributed by the Centers for Disease Control
186
1 Recommended vaccination schedule for infants and adults
196
2 Existing combination vaccines in the United States March 1999
207
Drugs for Parasitic Infection
434
2 Epidemiology and classification of the major helminths
454
3 Manufacturers and adverse effects of some antiparasitic drugs
460
1 Elements of a risk assessment for tuberculosis TB
470
3 Summary of interpretation of purified protein derivative
477
6 Treatment regimens for human immunodeficiency virus
484
3 Protocol for investigating purified protein derivative
508
Section 10A Sexually Transmitted Diseases
524
1 Oral desensitization protocol for patients with a positive
557
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716
Subject Index
731
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