Antibiotic and Chemotherapy: Anti-infective Agents and Their Use in Therapy, 8th Edition

hensive reference source on the use and development of antimicrobial agents from their earliest history through the current era. The text is voluminous at 1000 pages, but it is written clearly and divided into 3 major sections. The first section, “General Aspects, ” discusses the following aspects of antibiotic therapy and chemotherapy: history, modes of ac-tion, resistance, pharmacodynamics, renal clearance, drug interactions, the immune system and antibiotics, general princi-ples, laboratory control, chemoprophy-laxis, drug policies, drug discoveries, and regulatory considerations. Each chapter i