Antibiotics Simplified

by Jason C. Gallagher, Conan MacDougall

"This book focuses on key points of basic microbiology and antimicrobial pharmacotherapy and organizes them into a concise guide … must have antimicrobial reference guide for all medical and pharmacy students." Lindsay McDonnell, PharmD for Doody's Review Service

Antibiotics Simplified, Fourth Edition is a best selling, succinct guide designed to bridge knowledge gained in basic sciences courses with clinical practice in infectious diseases. This practical text reviews basic microbiology and how to approach the pharmacotherapy of a patient with a presumed infection. It also contains concise Drug Class Reviews with an explanation of the characteristics of various classes of antibacterial drugs and antifungal drugs.

This text simplifies learning infectious disease pharmacotherapy and condenses the many facts that are taught about antibiotics into one quick reference guide. This guide will help students learn the characteristics of antibiotics and why an antibiotic is useful for an indication. With an understanding of the characteristics of the antibiotics, students will be able to make a logical choice to treat an infection more easily.

The Fourth Edition will be revised and updated to include the following:

•2 Color Design
•Spiral Binding
•Front Matter
•Principles of Antibiotic Stewardship
•Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
•Chapters on new antibacterials
•New Chapter of Lipoglycopeptides
•Additional HIV Agents
•Chapters on New HCV drugs (2 new classes)
•New TB medications
•Antifungal Spectra of Activity Appendix

Key Features:
•Figures and Flow Charts
•Drug Class Reviews
•Spectra of Activity Chart
•Case Studies
•Index for Reference

Applicable Courses:
Ideal for courses in pharmacy and medical schools:
•Infectious Disease
•Pharmacology I & II
•Therapeutics/Pharmacotherapy
•Pharmacotherapy of Infectious Diseases
•Drug Review /Capstone Clinical Rotations (PA).

Genres: Medicine, Medical, Textbooks, Reference, Nonfiction, Nursing

352 pages, Spiral-bound

First published May 22, 2008

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a secret crush on infectious disease. (Please don't tell.)

[Jen Bergeron · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book might be more helpful than SketchyMicro. It is very easy to read and actually sort of funny. It somehow narrows down this incredibly huge topic into everything you need to know for clinical practice. It feels like you're cheating (well maybe its because this is the first book that is actually telling me what I need to know instead of reinforcing the same academic physiology points that we've been studying since first year). A lot of things started to click.
Highly recommend. The antibiotics section is only like 100 pages and can be read pretty quickly.

[Jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Concise, succinct, and helpful.

[Melissa Kimmel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great resource!

[Ahmed Sayed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can clearly recommend this book as handbook for anti-botics, to review anti-botics, and to study for exams if you are student. It is very simple direct and clear.

[Afnan Alharbi · Rating 4 out of 5]

الكتاب مفيد للمبتدئين في عالم المضادات الحيوية، من الافضل ان تكون عندك خبرة لا بأس بها في الأحياء الدقيقة حتى تستوعب المعلومات بشكل اسرع، يشرح في المقدمة عن المضادات بشكل عام عن الصيدلة الحركية وديناميكية الادوية المضادة، ثم ينتقل الى تصنيفها ويتكلم عن كل نوع بالتفصيل، الكتاب صغير وخفيف واسلوب الكتابة ممتع ويركز على اهم المعلومات ستخرج منه بقائدة كبيرة ووقت فصير من غير الاحساس بالملل

[Mills College Library]

615.7922 G1625 2014