Ashgate Handbook of Anti-Infective Agents

The discovery, in the 1930s and 1940s, of antibioticsrevolutionized the practice of medicine. Beginning with thestreptomycins and the penicillins, hundreds of antibiotics havebeen developed and have come into routine use for the management ofinfectious diseases, opportunistic infections and infectionsresulting from trauma. This cornucopia of anti-infective agents hascreated a number of problems, not the least of which is theorganization of information concerning them.This Handbook contains records for all the major drugs currentlyused in the treatment of infection. Monographs are provided for1600 anti-infective agents. For each main entry, the followinginformation is provided: the chemical name and a list ofproprietary names and synonyms; the Chemical Abstracts Service(CAS) Registry Number; the European Inventory of ExistingCommercial Chemical Substances (EINECS) number; and the Merck Index(12th edition) number. The physical properties of each compound aredescribed and the knownbiological activity and indicatedapplications are presented. The structure of each compound isprovided, together with a summary of the acute toxicity dataassociated with it, and the manufacturers and suppliers of the drugare also given. Indexes, including a master index of names andsynonyms, are appended.