Infectious Diseases and Your Health edited by Prati Pal Singh.

Infectious Diseases and Your Health has the potential to impact and improve your life, and the lives of your loved ones. Every day, nearly 40, 000 people including small children and women die of infectious diseases. Many of these innocent lives could be saved. Your journey through the pages of this...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Singh, Prati Pal (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Parasitic infections
  • Satranidazole and my pharmaceutical research odyssey: a success story
  • Amoebiasis revisited
  • Cerebral malaria: players in the pathogenic mechanism and treatment strategies
  • Role of white blood cells in immunopathogenesis of cerebral malaria
  • Chemotherapy and experimental models of visceral leishmaniasis
  • Human trichomoniasis
  • Taeniasis and neurocysticercosis: emerging public health problems
  • Helminth parasites: the cause of distress and diseases
  • Neglected tropical diseases: a biosocial perspective. Part 2: Bacterial infections
  • Autophagy: a potential anti-bacterial therapeutic target
  • Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance
  • Nontuberculous mycobacteria: an update on infections caused, laboratory identification and their treatment
  • Drugs under pre-clinical and clinical testing for the treatment of infections caused due to Staphylococcus aureus: an update
  • Recurrent vulvovaginal infections: etiology, diagnosis, treatment and management
  • Enterococci as nosocomial pathogen
  • Dietary antioxidants and infectious diseases
  • Probiotic lactobacilli, infection and immunomodulation
  • Part 3: Viral infections
  • HIV-AIDS: an unconquered immune-war
  • Chikungunya fever: where are we today? - Epigenetics and infectious pathogens: interactions, ploy and perspectives
  • Part 4: Fungal infections
  • An update on sexually transmitted infections: an Indian context
  • Candida: friend and foe of humans.