Antimicrobial Therapy in Veterinary Medicine has been restructured, completely updated, and considerably expanded beyond previous versions. Now divided into four sections, highlights of this edition include new chapters on pharmocokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships of antimicrobial agents, prophylactic use of antimicrobial agents, antimicrobial chemotherapy for the neutropenic patient, prudent use of antimicrobial agents, and antimicrobial therapy in New World camelids. The Fourth Edition includes coverage of the most recent antimicrobial agents developed for use in human or veterinary medicine.


Chapters on regulation, growth promotion uses and antimicrobial drug residues are fully revised to reflect extensive reexamination in many countries of the use of antimicrobial agents as growth promoters or in the prevention of disease in animals. Veterinarians, specialists, and students alike will find this book to be an indispensable reference on the general principles, special considerations, and clinical applications of virtually all types of antimicrobials used in veterinary medicine.

CONTENTS: Section I - General Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy

1. Antimicrobial drug action and interaction: an introduction
2. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and interpretation of results
3. Antimicrobial drug resistance and its epidmiology
4. Principles of antimicrobial drug bioavailability and disposition
5. The pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) relationship of antimicrobial agents (new)
7. Principles of antimicrobial drug selection and use

Section II - Classes of Antimicrobial Agents
8. Beta-lactam antibiotics: penam penicillins
9. Other beta-lactam antibiotics: beta-lactamase inhibitors, carbapenems, and monobactms
10. Peptide antibiotics: polymyxins, glycopeptides, streptogramins, and bacitracin
11. Lincosamindes, macrolides, and pleuromutilins
12. Macrolides, azalides, and ketolides (new)
13. Aminoglycosides and aminocyclitols
14. Tetracyclines
15. Chloramphenicol, thiamphenicol, and florfenicol
16. Sulfonamindes and diaminopyrimidines, and their combinations
17. Fluoroquinolones
18. Misc. antibiotics: ionophores, nitrofurans, nitroimidazoles, rifamycins, and others
19. Antifungal chemotherapy
20. Antiviral chemotherapy

Section III - Special Considerations
21. Prophylactic use of antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial chemotherapy for the neutropenic patient (new)
22. Antimicrobial therapy of selected organ systems
23. Antimicrobial therapy of selected bacterial infections
24. Growth promotion uses of antimicrobial agents
25. Antimicrobial drug residues in foods of animal origin
26. Regulation of antibiotic use in animals
27. Preduent use of antimicrobial agents

Section IV - Antimicrobial Drug Use in Selected Animal Species
28. Antimicrobial drug use in horses
29. Antimicrobial drug use in dogs and cats
30. Antimicrobial drug use in cattle
31. Antimicrobial drug use in bovine mastitis
32. Antimicrobial drug use in in sheep and goats
33. Antimicrobial drug use in new world camelids (new)
34. Antimicrobial drug use in swine
35. Antimicrobial drug use in poultry
36. Antimicrobial drug use in companion birds
37. Antimicrobial drug use in rodents, rabbits and ferrets
38. Antimicrobial drug use in reptiles
39. Antimicrobial drug use in aquaculture