Overview
- First book to give an overview on drug resistance spanning from microbes to primates
- Gives comprehensive insights in mechanisms of emergence of drug resistance
- Gives an outlook on the future of drug discovery
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Human survival on earth is constantly threatened by disease and syndrome. From the early days, the aim of research in medicine was to find therapeutic agents that can improve the quality of human life. Although humans are dependent on natural compounds from early days their dependence of drugs increased excessively in last century. The advances in chemistry and biology have helped researchers to identify the drugs that have improved treatment of many diseases. The primary factor for treatment of these diseases is dependent on the efficacy of drugs available. The development of resistance to these drugs is one of the major hindrances. Although there are number of books available on this topic, “drug resistance” biology across kingdoms has never been discussed in a coherent way.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently working as Chief Scientist, and is the Deputy Director, at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He is a Professor, AcSIR, who obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Genetics, from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected as: (1) Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), (2) Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS), and (3) Fellow of the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI). His main areas of research are Microbial biodiversity, Bioenergy, Biopolymers, Genomics, Microbial evolution, Quorum sensing, Quorum quenching, Drug discovery and Antimicrobials. He has published 99 papers in Scientific journals such as (1) Nature Biotechnology, (2) Biotechnology Advances, (3) Trends in Biotechnology, (4) Annual Review of Microbiology, (5) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (6) Bioresource Technology, (7) PLoS ONE, (8) BMC Genomics, (9) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and (10) Gene. He has authored 14 book chapters. His works have been cited 3267 times with an h index of 31 and an i10 index of 59. He has Edited 3 books: (i) Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with No End in Sight (2015), (ii) Microbial Factories Vol. 1: Biofuels, Waste treatment (2015) and (iii) Microbial Factories Vol. 2: Biodiversity, Biopolymers, Bioactive Molecules (2015). He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology and editor of: (1) Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea), (2) International Scholarly Res. Network Renewable Energy, (3) Dataset Papers in Microbiology, and (4) PLoS ONE. He is a life member of the following Scientific societies: (1) Society of Biological Chemists of India (2) Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; (3) Association of Microbiologists of India; (4) Indian Science Congress Association; (5) BioEnergy Society of India, and (6) the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drug Resistance in Bacteria, Fungi, Malaria, and Cancer
Editors: Gunjan Arora, Andaleeb Sajid, Vipin Chandra Kalia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48683-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48682-6Published: 29 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83992-9Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48683-3Published: 21 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 630
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Drug Resistance, Cell Biology, Cancer Research, Bacteriology