1st Edition

Tackling Antibiotic Resistance Combating Bacterial Infections

248 Pages 47 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Antibiotic resistance, the so called silent pandemic, is a serious, global health concern that has already cost Millions of lives. This book provides strategies for combatting antibiotic resistance by presenting in depth reviews of the nature and seriousness of the issue and discussing strategies and methods to deal with the evolution of resistance. Chapters unlock potential applications of... Read more

Chapter 1 – Tackling Antibiotic Resistance Chapter 2 – The Alarming Rise of Antibiotic Resistance, a Serious Global Health Threat Chapter 3 – Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Conventional and Novel Approaches Chapter 4 – Preserving the Power of Antibiotics Through Antibiotic Stewardship – A Review of Best Practices Chapter 5 – Nanoantimicrobials: Current Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions Chapter 6 – Antimicrobial Peptides and Bacteriocins “A Review of the Current Sate of the Art, Challenges, and Potentials Chapter 7 – Immunotherapeutics: A New Hope Against Resistant Bacteria Chapter 8 – Unlocking the Antibacterial Potential of Phytochemicals, Challenges and Opportunities Chapter 9 – Therapeutic Potential of Aptamers as Antimicrobial Agents, Current Update Chapter 10 – Vaccines: A Global Health Solution for the Control of Infectious Diseases Chapter 11 – The Rise of Bacteriophages as Antibacterial Agents, Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions Chapter 12 – Silencing Superbugs – CRISPR-Cas System to Combat Drug Resistance Chapter 13 – Combating Antibiotic Resistance with Smart Algorithms: Promising Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Information Classification: General Chapter 14 – Alternative Medicine for Bacterial Infections, Risks, Safety, and Potential Applications

Biography

Muhammad Ali Syed is currently serving as a professor in Microbiology at The University of Haripur. He is an experienced researcher and academician who served as a chairman of Department of Microbiology at The University of Haripur. His areas of interest include medical bacteriology, mechanism of antibiotic resistance, nanomedicine, molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases and vaccines. He has a long teaching and research experience in Microbiology in different countries such as Pakistan, USA, UK, China and Uganda.

Waseem Ahmed serves as an Assistant Professor at Department of Agricultural Sciences of The University of Haripur Pakistan. His major area of interest is investigating bioactive compounds from medicinal plants for their potential applications as antimicrobial agents to cure multi-drug□resistant bacterial infections. He is a prolific researcher having significant research output as well as several international awards and recognitions on his credit.

Prof. Shahid Ahmad Abbasi graduated from Army Medical College, Rawalpindi in 1982. He obtained his membership in pathology from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988 and completed his fellowship in microbiology in 1993. Over the course of his distinguished career in academic medicine, he served as Professor of Microbiology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for twelve years. He is currently serving as Professor of Microbiology at the Fauji Foundation Hospital and Medical College, where he has been contributing to the institution for the past twelve years.