Table of Contents:
  • Antimicrobial drug action and interaction: an introduction
  • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods and interpretation of results
  • Antimicrobial resistance and its epidemiology
  • Principles of antimicrobial drug bioavailability and disposition
  • The pharmacodynamics of antimicrobial agents
  • Principles of antimicrobial drug selection and use
  • Antimicrobial stewardship in animals
  • Beta-lactam antibiotics: penam penicillins
  • Beta-lactam antibiotics: cephalosporins
  • Other beta-lactam antibiotics: beta-lactamase inhibitors, carbapenems, and monobactams
  • Peptide antibiotics: polymyxins, glycopeptides, bacitracin, and fosfomycin
  • Lincosamides, pleuromutilins, and streptogramins
  • Macrolides, azalides, and ketolides
  • Aminoglycosides and aminocyclitols
  • Tetracyclines
  • Chloramphenicol, thiamphenicol, and florfenicol
  • Sulfonamides, diaminopyrimidines, and their combinations
  • Fluoroquinolones
  • Miscellaneous antimicrobials: ionophores, nitrofurans, nitroimidazoles, rifamycins, and others
  • Antifungal chemotherapy
  • Prophylactic use of antimicrobial agents, and antimicrobial chemotherapy for the neutropenic patient
  • Performance uses of antimicrobial agents and non-antimicrobial alternatives
  • Antimicrobial therapy of selected organ systems
  • Antimicrobial therapy of selected bacterial infections
  • Antimicrobial drug residues in foods of animal origin
  • Regulation of antimicrobial use in animals
  • Antimicrobial drug use in horses
  • Antimicrobial drug use in dogs and cats
  • Antimicrobial drug use in cattle
  • Antimicrobial drug use in mastitis
  • Antimicrobial drug use in sheep and goats
  • Antimicrobial drug use in new world camelids
  • Antimicrobial drug use in swine
  • Antimicrobial drug use in poultry
  • Antimicrobial drug use in companion birds
  • Antimicrobial drug use in rabbits, rodents, and ferrets
  • Antimicrobial drug use in reptiles
  • Antimicrobial drug use in zoological animals
  • Antimicrobial drug use in aquaculture.