Novel Targets of Drug Monitoring for Antibiotics

Dear Colleagues,

Drug monitoring is crucial to successfully curing patients’ infections, as typified by vancomycin. Just over 20 years ago, target concentration intervention (TCI) was distinguished from therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Both TCI and TDM can be considered as approaches to centration-controlled dosing of individual patients (Holford, 1999). Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is a branch of clinical chemistry and clinical pharmacology that specializes in the measurement of medication concentrations in blood. On the other hand, target concentration intervention (TCI) embraces pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic concepts and uses the idea of a target effect and associated target concentration to make rational individual dose decisions. This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality manuscripts evaluating the novel target of drug monitoring for antibiotics. In the era of individualized medicine, further research of the safety and efficacy of drug monitoring of antibiotics based on novel targets (e.g., unbound drug concentration, metabolites and/or biomarkers) is warranted.

Dr. Yasuhiro Tsuji
Guest Editor

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