Section I - General Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy 1. Antimicrobial drug action and interaction: an introduction 2. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and interpretation of results 3. Antimicrobial drug resistance and its epidmiology 4. Principles of antimicrobial drug bioavailability and disposition 5. The pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) relationship of antimicrobial agents (new) 7. Principles of antimicrobial drug selection and use Section II - Classes of Antimicrobial Agents 8. Beta-lactam antibiotics: penam penicillins 9. Other beta-lactam antibiotics: beta-lactamase inhibitors, carbapenems, and monobactms 10. Peptide antibiotics: polymyxins, glycopeptides, streptogramins, and bacitracin 11. Lincosamindes, macrolides, and pleuromutilins 12. Macrolides, azalides, and ketolides (new) 13. Aminoglycosides and aminocyclitols 14. Tetracyclines 15. Chloramphenicol, thiamphenicol, and florfenicol 16. Sulfonamindes and diaminopyrimidines, and their combinations 17. Fluoroquinolones 18. Misc. antibiotics: ionophores, nitrofurans, nitroimidazoles, rifamycins, and others 19. Antifungal chemotherapy 20. Antiviral chemotherapy Section III - Special Considerations 21. Prophylactic use of antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial chemotherapy for the neutropenic patient (new) 22. Antimicrobial therapy of selected organ systems 23. Antimicrobial therapy of selected bacterial infections 24. Growth promotion uses of antimicrobial agents 25. Antimicrobial drug residues in foods of animal origin 26. Regulation of antibiotic use in animals 27. Preduent use of antimicrobial agents Section IV - Antimicrobial Drug Use in Selected Animal Species 28. Antimicrobial drug use in horses 29. Antimicrobial drug use in dogs and cats 30. Antimicrobial drug use in cattle 31. Antimicrobial drug use in bovine mastitis 32. Antimicrobial drug use in in sheep and goats 33. Antimicrobial drug use in new world camelids (new) 34. Antimicrobial drug use in swine 35. Antimicrobial drug use in poultry 36. Antimicrobial drug use in companion birds 37. Antimicrobial drug use in rodents, rabbits and ferrets 38. Antimicrobial drug use in reptiles 39. Antimicrobial drug use in aquaculture Index