Treatment of serious infections in the 1990s

The relationship between structure and activity of new antimicrobial agents - an emerging science for the development of new therapies of the 1990s intra-abdominal infections - monotherapy versus combination therapy treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease - antibiotics, surgery and modifications of inflammation therapy for sepsis in neutropenic patient myelopoietic factors in the prevention of infections in neutropenic patients immunotherapy for septic shock - a process-orientated approach short-course combination and oral therapies for bacterial endocarditis treatment of bacterial meninigitis - blocking harmful mediators of bacterial and host origin the use of antibiotics, corticosteriods, and surgery in the treatment of brain abcesses therapy for herpes simplex virus infections of the central nervous system anti-HIV treatment - recent advances in targeted drug development cryptoccal meningitis in the immunotherapy for AIDs - associated toxoplasmopsis prevention of HIV infection during the 1990s - criteria for post-exposure prophylaxis for health care providers sustaining occupational exposure to HIV.