This popular and extensively utilized guide on pediatric antimicrobial treatment offers immediate access to dependable, current suggestions for managing various infectious diseases in children. The authors offer insights for each disease to aid healthcare professionals in choosing the most suitable antimicrobial options. Descriptions of medications encompass antimicrobials appropriate for pediatric use and provide comprehensive details on dosing schedules. To address escalating worries regarding antibiotic misuse, the guide incorporates recommendations on instances where antibiotic prescription is unnecessary.

Recommendations for novel intravenous broad-spectrum beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations are included in the 25th edition.

• Offers solutions for treating urinary tract infections caused by Escherichia coli that is becoming more resistant.

• Contains updates regarding the treatment of diarrhea, such as suggestions for Giardia based on the new guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), which suggest tinidazole and nitazoxanide as the preferred medications.

• Explicates particular, novel, and developing guidelines regarding the dosages of antifungal therapeutic drugs for a number of invasive fungal infections, especially in children with compromised immune systems.

• Rearranges the antiviral table to make it easier to read: HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C are in one table, and common viral pathogens are in another.

• Offers advice to newborns during the current cefotaxime shortage, along with substitutes that have a comparable safety profile and can produce comparable antibacterial activity in comparable tissue sites.

• Contains updates, including new data on steroid and medication therapy for neurocysticercosis, taking into account the most recent IDSA and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene recommendations.

• Updated recommendations include the new IDSA guidelines for coccidioidomycosis.

• Makes it simpler to find the best treatment options for pathogen susceptibility to bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites with color-coded tabs and tables that simplify navigation.

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