title: Therapeutic drug monitoring by LC-MS-MS with special focus on anti-infective drugs.
abstract: Liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry nowadays plays an important role in the field of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), especially of new compounds for which no immunoassays are available. This paper reviews LC-MS(-MS) methods published recently for anti-infective drugs: antiretroviral drugs, other antiviral drugs, antibacterial drugs, antihelmintic drugs, antimalarial drugs, and other antiprotozoal drugs. An overview of the different methods is given, with special focus on selection of the internal standard and validation procedures.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Katharina M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Rentsch
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000032:analysis* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents