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Title

Management of multiple drug-resistant infections / edited by Stephen H. Gillespie.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gillespie, S. H.

Description

xii, 403 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Infectious disease

Uniform Title

Infectious disease (Totowa, N.J.)

Subjects

• Infection Control
• Bacterial Infections > drug therapy
• Drug Resistance, Multiple
• Multidrug resistance
• Anti-Infective Agents > therapeutic use
• Communicable Diseases > drug therapy
• Drug resistance in microorganisms

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Gram-Positive Bacteria -- 1. Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae / Eric L. Nuermberger and William R. Bishai -- 2. Management of Meningitis Caused by Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae / P. Fernandez Viladrich -- 3. Emerging Resistance to Vancomycin, Rifampin, and Fluoroquinolones in Streptococcus pneumoniae / Joseph M. Blondeau -- 4. Management of Glycopeptide-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections / A. Peter R. Wilson -- 5. Infections Caused by Glycopeptide-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacteria Excluding Staphylococci / Armine Sefton -- 6. Isolation Policies and the Hospital Management of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Case of Evidence-Free Medicine? / Sheldon P. Stone -- Pt. II. Gram-Negative Pathogens -- 7. The Management of Resistant Acinetobacter Infections in the Intensive Therapy Unit / Nicola Baker and Peter Hawkey -- 8. Drug-Resistant Helicobacter pylori / Peter J. Jenks -- 9. The Management of Antibiotic-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Catherine A. Ison and Jonathan Ross -- 10. Management of Urinary Tract Infections Caused by Multiresistant Organisms / Jeremy M. T. Hamilton-Miller -- 11. Management of Multiple Drug-Resistant Salmonella Infections / Christopher M. Parry -- 12. Management of Melioidosis / Andrew J. H. Simpson -- Pt. III. Mycobacteria -- 13. The Molecular Epidemiology of MDR-TB / Paul D. van Helden, Robin M. Warren, Pieter Uys, Gian D. van der Spuy and Thomas C. Victor -- 14. The Management of Multiple Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / Sanjay Bhagani and Marc Lipman -- 15. Management of Infection With Nontuberculosis Mycobacteria / Stephen H. Gillespie -- Pt. IV. Fungal and Parasitic Infections -- 16. Management of Resistant Candida Infections / Sanya Clements and Christopher C. Kibbler -- 17. Management of Infection With Naturally Amphotericin B-Resistant Fungi / Thean Yen Tan and Rosemary A. Barnes -- 18. Management of Multiple Drug-Resistant Malaria / Elizabeth Ashley and Francois Nosten -- 19. Schistosome Drug Resistance: Praziquantel / Michael J. Doenhoff and Katherine Wheatcroft-Francklow -- Pt. V. Viral Infections -- 20. Management of HIV Drug-Resistant Infections / Deenan Pillay -- 21. Multidrug Resistance in Human Cytomegalovirus / Vincent C. Emery, Mohammad Raza Naqvee and Anuradha Chawla.

ISBN

1588292304 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003014628

OCLC

• ocm52547592
• SCSB-4864408

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries