INFECTIOUS DISEASES DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT ESSENTIALS

Antimicrobial resistance now kills more people annually than HIV or malaria. Carbapenem-resistant gram-negatives have reached community settings. The 2025 ATS guidelines changed empiric antibiotic recommendations for pneumonia. Candida auris demands novel antifungal strategies. Antimicrobial stewardship is a regulatory mandate in US acute care facilities, yet most clinical references treat it as an afterthought.

When your references lag behind these shifts, you face real consequences: empiric regimens mismatched to local resistance, stewardship expectations without practical implementation guidance, and treatment decisions built on outdated evidence. Pocket guides give you drug tables without reasoning. Multi-volume encyclopedias give you everything except portability. Neither teaches you how to think through an infectious disease problem with stewardship principles applied at every prescribing decision.

Infectious Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Essentials: A Clinical Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, Stewardship, and Evidence-Based Management is a focused, single-volume clinical guide built for the prescriber who manages infections in daily practice. This 2026 edition integrates antimicrobial stewardship throughout every clinical discussion rather than confining it to a single chapter you may never read.

Written for internal medicine residents, infectious disease fellows, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinical pharmacists, and hospitalists, this guide covers:

• Applied antimicrobial pharmacology and PK/PD — dosing optimization, extended infusions, therapeutic drug monitoring, and renal replacement therapy adjustments
• Organ-system infections — respiratory, urinary, CNS, cardiovascular, GI, skin and soft tissue, and bone and joint infections with current empiric and pathogen-directed therapy
• Antimicrobial resistance — gram-positive and gram-negative resistance mechanisms, ESBL and carbapenemase detection, and resistance-guided prescribing
• Special populations — HIV and opportunistic infections, febrile neutropenia, transplant recipients, infections in pregnancy and older adults
• Mycobacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral infections — tuberculosis, invasive candidiasis, malaria, and current antivirals including COVID-19 therapeutics
• Stewardship tools you can apply today — de-escalation criteria, IV-to-oral conversion protocols, antibiogram interpretation, and program development
• More than 100 clinical procedure and teaching videos accessible through integrated QR codes embedded at the point of clinical relevance
• Clinical images, illustrations, and reference appendices — empiric therapy tables, drug dosing guides with renal adjustments, and clinical scoring systems

Order your copy and bring your infectious disease practice current.