Skip to main content

Clinical Use of Anti-infective Agents

A Guide on How to Prescribe Drugs Used to Treat Infections

  • Book
  • © 2012

Overview

  • Useful for for students of pharmacology and medical students
  • A set of appendices provide dosing recommendations for oral and parenteral administration
  • Includes a list of drug interactions for commonly used anti-infective drugs
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Introduction to Anti-infective Therapy, Structures and Mechanisms of Action of Commonly Used Antibacterial Agents

  2. The Clinician Approaches a Patient with an Infectious Disease

Keywords

About this book

This book was designed as a reference tool for pharmacists involved in the treatment of patients with infections. It is clinically oriented and designed to help students in all medical disciplines, and especially pharmacists and students of pharmacy who need information on choosing the correct drug, dose, and method of administration of an agent to patients with infectious diseases. Nurse practitioners and clinical microbiologists who need to understand the use of anti-infective agents in patients will also find this volume useful.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Medical School, Dept. Biochemistry &, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, USA

    Robert W. Finberg

  • UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, USA

    Roy Guharoy

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us