Reference, Diseases, Clinical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Infectious Disease 

Antibiotic Essentials, updated annually, is a pocket guide on antimicrobial therapy and infectious diseases. Not simply a collection of guidelines, but a practical, concise and authoritative guide, written by expert clinicians for practicing clinicians, presented in a user friendly format. Antibiotic Essentials has many special features, including chapters on clinical microbiology (including susceptibility profiles, and site-pathogen clinical correlations), initial empiric therapy (with easy to use treatment grids, IV to PO switch options), HIV, fungal parasitic infections, antibiotic prophylaxis & immunizations, pediatric ID, pneumonia chest X-ray atlas, color Gram stain atlas, antibiotic pearls & pitfalls, and ID differential diagnosis. It includes both infectious and non-infectious disorders. The book is edited by Burke A. Cunha, MD MACP, who is Chief of Infectious Disease Division at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York, and Professor of Medicine at State University of New York School of Medicine in Stony Brook, New York. The author is one of the world's leading experts on antimicrobial therapy and infectious diseases.