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Author:   Peter Davey ,  Mark H. Wilcox ,  William Irving ,  Guy Thwaites
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   7th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.756kg
ISBN:  

9780199689774

ISBN 10:   0199689776
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   21 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART 1: GENERAL PROPERTIES OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; PART 2: RESISTANCE TO ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; PART 3: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF USAGE OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; PART 4: THERAPEUTIC USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; APPENDIX 1: FURTHER READING

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Review from previous edition This well designed, compact, up-to-date book could serve as a foundational resource in the antimicrobial management of infectious diseases for healthcare professionals. Understanding the appropriate use of antimicrobial agents is essential to reducing antimicrobial resistance. This updated version is timely and necessary. Doody's

'Review from previous edition This well designed, compact, up-to-date book could serve as a foundational resource in the antimicrobial management of infectious diseases for healthcare professionals. Understanding the appropriate use of antimicrobial agents is essential to reducing antimicrobial resistance. This updated version is timely and necessary.' Doody's

Author Information

Peter Davey has over thirty years experience of research focused on the outcomes of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the relationships between prescribing and resistance. He trained as an Infectious Diseases Physician in Birmingham UK and at the Tufts New England Medical Centre in Boston. He was the first Director of the University of Dundee's Health Informatics Centre from 2003-6. He is past President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. He is Surveillance and Stewardship Secretary of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Mark Wilcox is a Consultant and Clinical Director of Microbiology and Pathology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. His is also Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Leeds, UK Will Irving qualified in Medicine from Cambridge, and completed a PhD in Immunology, before specializing in Virology .Will's main interest is in viral hepatitis. He chairs the Department of Health Advisory Group on Hepatitis, and is co-chair of HCV Research UK (a national cohort of patients with hepatitis C virus infection). Will is also a keen bridge player, and avid Leeds Rhinos and Utd fan. Guy Thomas qualified from Cambridge University and the United Medical and Dental schools of Guy's and St Thomas' and trained in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in Brighton, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Vietnam, Imperial College London, and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. Guy held Wellcome Trust Training and Intermediate Fellowships to study tuberculosis; and is a founder and Chairman of the UK Clinical Infection Research Group. Between 2011 and 2013 he was a Reader in Infectious Diseases at King's College London and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation trust, before returning to Vietnam in 2013 to take over as Director of OUCRU.

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