Contents: I. General Considerations: 1. Basics of Rational Antibiotic Practice/Raju C Shah and Pratima Shah. 2. Failure of Antibiotic Therapy/Abhay K. Shah.3. General Principles in Antibiotic Therapy/Baldev S Prajapati and Rajal B Prajapati. 4. Adverse Effects of Antibiotic and Its Management/Jeeson C Unni and Abhay K Shah. 5. Chemoprophylaxi/Janani Sankar. II. Common Infections in Office Practice: 6. Tonsillopharyngitis/Jaydeep Choudhury. 7. Diphtheria/Jaydeep Choudhury. 8. Otitis Media: Acute and Recurrent/Santanu Bhakta. 9. Sinusitis/Ashok Rai. 10. Whooping Cough/Parang N Mehta. 11. Community-acquired Pneumonias/Sanjay K Ghorpade. 12. Empyema/Kheya Ghosh Uttam. 13. Suppurative Lung Diseases/Kheya Ghosh Uttam. 14. Acute Diarrheal Disorders/Chetan Shah. 15. Urinary Tract Infection/Upendra Kinjawadekar and Vipin Goyal. 16. Enteric Fever/Parang N Mehta. 17. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis/Bhaskar Shenoy. 18. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and Necrotizing Fasciitis/Abhay K Shah. 19. Septic Arthritis/Ketan H Shah. 20. Osteomyelitis/Ketan H Shah. 21. Acute Bacterial Meningitis/Ritabrata Kundu and Aniruddha Ghosh. 22. Brain Abscess/Nupur Ganguly and Suchi Acharya. 23. Ring Lesions/Ritesh Shah. III. Healthcare-associated Infections and Special Situations: 24. Ventilator-associated Pneumonia/Bharat Mehra and Amarjeet Chitkara. 25. Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection/Narayanappa D. 26. Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections/Narayanappa D.IV. Superbugs: 27. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/Dhanya Dharmapalan. 28. Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamases/Vijay Yewale. 29. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae/Abhay K Shah. V. Salvaging the Antibiotics: 30. Antibiotic Stewardship/Shyam Kukreja. 31. Infection Control in Healthcare Settings/Bhaskar Shenoy. Annexures. Index. Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context and pertaining to a particular topic. The format is commonly used on e-mail mailing lists and other online forums, where certain common questions tend to recur. Busy practitioners are confronted with many questions which need to be answered immediately and may be difficult to find in textbooks. This FAQs book will definitely help them to find the answers immediately. Key Features: Concise, readable, and complete information about the infectious diseases commonly seen by a pediatric practitioner. Frequently encountered infectious diseases covered in detail with information quickly available when managing a child in a busy OPD or ward. Easy to read FAQs (frequently asked questions) format. Everyday problems solved in an accessible and usable way. Every chapter written and reviewed by experts.