Antimicrobial resistance
Subtitle: problem pathogens and clinical countermeasures
By: edited by Robert C. Owens, Jr., Ebbing Lautenbach.
Contributors: Owens, Robert C.; Lautenbach, Ebbing.
Series: Infectious disease and therapy -- 48; Infectious disease and therapy -- v. 48.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780824729417
Subjects: Drug resistance in microorganisms; Drug Resistance, Microbial
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The attributable costs of resistant infections in hospital settings: economic theory and application / R. Douglas Scott II and Rebecca R. Roberts; title: Benchmarking : its utility in the fight against antibacterial resistance / Sujata M. Bhavnani and Glenn S. Tillotsen; title: Antibiotic resistance : opportunity or obstacle for the pharmaceutical industry? / Glenn S. Tillotsen; title: Understanding studies of resistant organisms : focus on epidemiological methods / Ebbing Lautenbach; title: Staphylococcus aureus : resistance update and treatment options / Pamela A. Moise and George Sakoulas; title: Enterococci : resistance update and treatment options / Peter K. Linden; title: Streptococcus pneumoniae : resistance update and treatment options / Nicole Akar, William R. Bishai, and Sanjay K. Jain; title: Acinetobacter species : resistance update and treatment options / Lisa L. Maragakis and Trish M. Perl; title: Pseudomonas aeruginosa : an understanding of resistance issues / Karen Lolans, Maria Virginia Villegas, and John P. Quinn; title: Problematic beta-lactamases : an update / Marion S. Helfand and Louis B. Rice; title: Clostridium difficile-infection : overview and update with a focus on antimicrobial resistance as a risk factor / Robert C. Owens, Jr., August J. Valenti, and Mark H. Wilcox; title: Emerging resistance among candida species : trends and treatment considerations for candidemia; title: Early appropriate empiric therapy and antimicrobial de-escalation / James M. Hollands ... [et al.]; title: Antimicrobial cycling strategies programs / Bernard C. Camins and Victoria J. Fraser; title: Antimicrobial stewardship : rationale for and practical considerations of programmatic institutional efforts to optimize antimicrobial use / Robert C Owens, Jr.; title: Computer-assisted programs to optimize antimicrobial use / Stanley L. Pestotnik and Jonathan B. Olson; title: Practical application of pharmacodynamic principles to optimize therapy and treat resistant organisms : a focus on beta-lactam antibiotics / Thomas P. Lodise, Ben M. Lomaestro, and George L. Drusano; title: Shorter course antibiotic therapy (SCAT) : principles, current data, and caveats / Donald E. Craven ... [et al.]; title: Impact of guidelines on antimicrobial treatment of respiratory tract infections / Thomas M. File; title: The impact of hospital epidemiology on the management and control of antimicrobial resistance : issues and controversies / August J. Valenti; title: Combination antimicrobial therapy for gram-negative infections : what is the evidence? / Nasia Safdar and Cybele L. Abad; title: Antibiotic resistance : modern principles and management strategies to optimize outpatient use of antibiotics / Sharon B. Meropol and Joshua P. Metlay.