Deriving from Pratt's Fundamentals of Chemotherapy (OUP, 1973), Chemotherapy of Infection (OUP, 1977), and The Antimicrobial Drugs (OUP, 1986), this superb text surveys the drugs used to treat bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infections. It describes in comprehensive detail the mechanisms for both the antimicrobial actions and the adverse
clinical effects of these drugs. No other book provides such a thorough yet readily accessible discussion of how the body handles antibiotics. For this edition, Eric Scholar has joined Dr. Pratt as co-author, and the entire text has been updated. Two completely new chapters on the
quinolones and
antiretroviral agents have been added. With over 3500…
This book is helpful for those who are interested in infectious diseases. Althoug newer drugs do not be included in this book and there are some limitations of information of some antibiotics, this…
