Infectious Diseases and Your Health

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Singh, Prati Pal (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Parasitology.; Infectious diseases.; Drug resistance.; Public health.; Infectious Diseases.; Drug Resistance.; Public Health.

 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 book will take you to an amazing world of infectious diseases. You will learn about various infectious diseases, how they can affect your life, the problems associated with their treatment and prevention, and how to overcome these problems. Additionally, you will hear the success story of new drug research, be introduced to the hard facts, and find fascinating pictures of microorganisms and parasites. The book provides instant solutions to several of your concerns about infectious diseases, and you will learn to live a highly productive, long and healthy life. So, join thousands of readers of this book worldwide, enhance your life and the lives of your loving family, become an informed healthy citizen, and contribute to achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Let us never forget: life and quality of life are very precious. 

 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.