Abstract
This section will deal with the treatment by chemotherapeutic agents of diseases due to viruses, bacteria, protozoa, multicellular organisms and neoplasia. There is a unity in the theme, since the drugs used to attack the lesions generally do so by acting at the cellular level. Thus the action of the antibacterial antimetabolites, such as the sulphonamides, or the antiviral agents, such as the cytosine arabinosides, is essentially similar to the action of the anticancer agents, such as methotrexate and fluorouracil.
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Maxwell, G.M. (1984). General and Specific Chemotherapy. In: Principles of Paediatric Pharmacology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7544-9_16
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