title: [Principles of modern antibiotic therapy in the general practice and clinic. Discussion of the contribution by Walter Siegenthaler and Gertrude Siegenthaler-Zuber published in Z. gesamte inn. Med. 42 (1987) 614-618].
abstract: W. Siegenthaler's and G. Siegenthaler-Zuber's opinion, according to which in the majority of infections in practice an etiological (microbiological) diagnosis may be renounced and the guiding slogan "before therapy the gods have placed the diagnosis" should be relativized for the situation in the practice in contrast to the situation in the clinic, is opposed. Microbiological findings represent an unrenouncable basis for a rational antimicrobial chemotherapy in practice and clinic. In the individual case this does not exclude a calculated chemotherapy on account of a clinical and microbiological tentative diagnosis made by the physician in charge. But at the latest when the empiric therapy fails an efficient microbiologic diagnostics must be at our disposal.
authors.affiliation: Inneren Abteilung, Ev.-Luth. Diakonissenhauses Leipzig.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tauchnitz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Handrick
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
vernacular_title: Grundsätze moderner Antibiotikatherapie in Praxis und Klinik. Diskussion zur Arbeit von Walter Siegenthaler und Gertrud Siegenthaler-Zuber erschienen in Z. gesamte inn. Med. 42 (1987) 614-618.