Antibiotics in Laboratory Medicine, 5th ed.QR69 2004-027260 0-7817-4983-2 Antibiotics in laboratory medicine, 5th ed. Title main entry. Ed. by Victor Lorian. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [c]2005 889 p. $199.00 Contributors in many medical specialties Medical Specialties See also anatomy; disease and illness; drugs; health; remedies; surgery. adenography the science of the description of glands. — adenographic, adj. from the US, Europe, Brazil, and Australia update the reference first published in 1980 and most recently in 1996 on compounds and classes of antimicrobial agents Antimicrobial agents Chemical compounds biosynthetically or synthetically produced which either destroy or usefully suppress the growth or metabolism of a variety of microscopic or submicroscopic forms of life. and on methods and approaches for evaluating their efficacy and mechanisms of action and resistance in vitro in vitro /in vi·tro/ (in ve´tro) [L.] within a glass; observable in a test tube; in an artificial environment. in vi·tro adj. In an artificial environment outside a living organism. and in vivo in vivo /in vi·vo/ (ve´vo) [L.] within the living body. in vi·vo adj. Within a living organism. in vivo adv. . Though having few new antimicrobial agents to report, the fifth edition includes new anti-fungal and antiviral agents antiviral agent Antiviral Infectious disease An agent that prevents viral invasion or replication, treats an infection, or thrashes the virus into latency; antivirals may be specific–see below or nonspecific–eg, IFNs, which stimulate host defenses and new molecular methods, computer algorithms, and statistical programs to evaluate the potency of new and old drugs, to compare activity within classes of agents, to select appropriate therapy, to identify the genetic resistance of micro-organisms, and to track resistance trends from local to international scales. |
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