Drug Interactions in Infectious Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Piscitelli, Stephen C. (Editor), Rodvold, Keith A. (Editor), Pai, Manjunath P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Infectious Disease
• Subjects: Pharmacy.; Medicine.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.

The revised and up-to-date third edition of Drug Interactions in Infectious Diseases delivers a text that will enhance your clinical knowledge of the complex mechanisms, risks, and consequences of drug interactions associated with antimicrobials, infection, and inflammation.  The third edition featu...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Forward. Introduction to Drug Interactions
• Mechanisms of Drug Interactions I: Absorption, Metabolism, and Excretion
• Mechanisms of Drug Interactions II: Transport Proteins
• Drug-Food Interaction
• Interactions Between Herbs and Antiinfective Medicications
• Drug-Cytokine Interactions
• Beta-LactamAntibiotics
• Macrolides, Azalides, Kateolides
• Quinolones
• Glycopeptides, Lipopeptides, and Lipoglycopeptides
• Miscellaneous Antibiotics
• Drugs for Tuberculosis
• Drug Interactions with Antiretrovirals for HIV Infections
• Non-HIV Antiviral Agents
• Antifungal Agents
• Antimalarial Agents
• Antiprotozoal and Antithelmintic Agents
• Drug Interactions Considerations Throughout Drug Development.
• Probe Cocktail Studies
• Design and Data Analysis in Drug Interaction Studies
• Index.