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Principles of Diagnosis and Management

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Principles of Antimicrobial therapy

A Molecular Perspective of Microbial Pathogenicity

The Human Microbiome of Local Body Sites and their unique biology

Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Symbiotics

Innate Host Defense Mechanisms

Adaptive Immunity: Antibodies and Immunodeficiencies

Cell-Mediated Defense against Infection

Mucosal Immunity

Granulocytic Phagocytes

Complement and Deficiencies

Human Genetics and Infection

Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection

Evaluation of the Patient with Suspected Immunodeficiency

Applied Epidemiology for the Infectious Diseases Physician

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Threats

Bioterrorism

The Clinician and the Microbiology Laboratory

Principles of Antiinfective Therapy

Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antiinfective Agents

Penicillins and B-lactamase inhibitors

Cephalosporins

Carbapenems and Aztreonam

Antibiotic Allergy

Fusidic Acid

Aminoglycosides

Tetracyclines, Glycylcyclines, and Chloramphenicol

Rifamycins

Metronidazole

Macrolides and Clindamycin

Glycopeptides and Lipoglycopeptides

Daptomycin and Quinupristin-Dalfopristin

Polymixins

Linezolid, Tedizolid and other Oxazolidinones

Sulfonamides and Trimethoprim

Quinolones

Unique Antibacterial Agents

Urinary Tract Agents: Nitrofurantoin, Fosfomycin, and Methenamine

Topical Antibacterials

Antimycobacterial Agents

Amphotericin B

Azoles

Echinocandins

Flucytosine

Antimalarial Drugs

Drugs for Protozoal Infections other than Malaria

Drugs for Helminths

Antiviral Agents: General Principles

Antiviral Drugs for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Infections

Antivirals against Herpesviruses

Antiviral Drugs against Hepatitis Viruses

Miscellaneous Antiviral Agents

Immunomodulators

Hyperbaric Oxygen

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Designing and Interpreting Clinical Studies in Infectious Diseases

Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

Tables of Antiinfective Agent Pharmacology

Procalcitonin

Phage therapy

Monoclonal antibodies