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Pharmaceuticals from Microbes

The Bioengineering Perspective

  • Explores the critical aspects of innovative strategies for microbial products in academia and healthcare industry
  • Covers the use of genetically modified bacteria for the delivery of vaccine antigens
  • Describes the polymeric particle based bioactive delivery systems against microbes
  • Emphasises the significance of engineered new molecules and biotransformation approaches using microbial platforms
  • Highlights process technology related to the upstream/downstream processing of biopharmaceuticals

Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 26)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Advances in Drug Delivery Strategies for Microbial Healthcare Products

    • Jose Manuel Ageitos, Marcos Garcia-Fuentes
    Pages 1-38
  3. Microbial Modifications of Flavonols

    • Prakash Parajuli, Biplav Shrestha, Jae Kyung Sohng, Ramesh Prasad Pandey
    Pages 143-161
  4. Engineering Streptomyces peucetius for Doxorubicin and Daunorubicin Biosynthesis

    • Biplav Shrestha, Anaya Raj Pokhrel, Sumangala Darsandhari, Prakash Parajuli, Jae Kyung Sohng, Ramesh Prasad Pandey
    Pages 191-209
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 211-212

About this book

This book has been assembled with the hope of being an authoritative, comprehensive, conceptually sound and highly informative compilation of recent advances describing the concepts of bioengineering in the field of microbiology. It comprises of seven chapters written by eminent authors in their respective fields. Topics included deal with the significant advancement of microbial technology with emphasis on drug delivery strategies for healthcare products, vaccine delivery, biotransformation approaches to generate new molecules, upstream/downstream processing of biopharmaceuticals. It serves as excellent reference material for researchers, students and academicians in the fields of biotechnology, microbiology and pharmaceutical sciences.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, CSIR, Jammu, India

    Divya Arora, Sundeep Jaglan

  • Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana, India

    Chetan Sharma

  • Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France

    Eric Lichtfouse

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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