Infectious Diseases and Your Health, 1st ed. 2018

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, becomean 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.- Recurrentvulvovaginal 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.

Professor (Dr.) Prati Pal Singh, an internationally renowned educationalist and scientist, works at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S. A. S Nagar, India. For his Ph.D. degree (1980), he worked at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, and did his post-doctorate at Stanford University Medical Centre, CA, USA (1986) and Ohio State University, OH, USA (1984-85). Prof. Singh was subsequently a visiting fellow at Montreal General Hospital, Canada (1985). He is an eminent biotechnologist, parasitologist, microbiologist, immunologist and neuroimmunopharmacologist. Prof. Singh was involved in the pre-clinical development of satranidazole, a new anti-amoebic drug which is now on the market. He first reported on opiates as a new class of drugs for the treatment of parasitic/microbial infections, and has made important contributions to the control and treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and trichomoniasis. Prof. Singh has co-edited three books: Water and Health (2014), Human Parasitic Infections of Pharmaceutical and National Health Importance (2009) and Biotechnical Approaches to Neuroimminumodulation and Infectious Diseases (2009). He has over 200 research publications including one in Nature Medicine, five editorials and nine patents including one US patent to his credit. Prof. Singh has been Editor-in-Chiefof the Journal of Parasitic Diseases,and serves on the Editorial Board of the US journal J. Neuroimmune Pharmacology and several other international journals.  Prof. Singh was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2004) and Fellow of the Academy of Microbiological Sciences (2008), and was nominated for the fellowships of the Indian National Science Academy and Indian Science Academy. He was elected anAt-Large Councilor (non-US) for the Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology, USA in 2010.