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Management of Antimicrobials in Infectious Diseases: Impact of Antibiotic Resistance
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Edited by Arch G Mainous III, Glaire Pomeroy. Pp 350; $99.50. New Jersey: Humana Press, 2000. ISBN 0-896-03821-1.
Over the years, many books on the use of antimicrobials in the treatment of infectious disease have been written. Although few of these books have a subtitle implying that resistance will be specifically dealt with (as with this book), most of them by necessity write about this topic. I approached this book with a degree of cynicism, expecting to find the same tales retold in the same formulaic way. The first part of the book was not what …