Therefore, newer drugs may be available.
Antimicrobials are drugs used to combat infectious diseases.
Each class is designed to treat different infectious disease types, although some of the drugs within a class may have some crossover activity. In this series of articles, we will discuss the merits and problems of each class of antimicrobials and their respective subclasses. The list of drugs will be by no means comprehensive. The intent is to give you a cursory knowledge of the medications being used on your birds and the basis for rational drug therapy. This overview article is the first in the series.