Overview
- Discusses role of nanotechnology in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious disease
- Presents nanoscale carrier in drug and vaccine delivery against infectious disease
- Examines application of biomimetic nanoparticles in anti-infective therapy
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Nanomaterials as Anti-infection Therapeutics
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Nanotechnology and Drug Carriers
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Nanotechnology and Drug Resistance
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Saif Hameed is currently working as an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana (AUH). He did his bachelors from the University of Delhi and Master’s from Jamia Hamdard. He completed his doctoral studies in Life Sciences from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was a Visiting Scholar in Institut für Mikrobiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. He received Young Scientist award under the Fast Track Scheme from the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. Dr. Hameed is a life member of the International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID), Association for Microbiologist (AMI), India, and Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), India. Dr. Hameed is actively engaged in research in the field of infectious diseases, particularly on multidrug resistance (MDR) in pathogenic fungi. He has published more than 60 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and edited 5 books, and contributed 25 book chapters.
Dr. Suriya Rehman is currently working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Epidemic Diseases Research, Institute for Research and Medical Consultation, Imam Abdulrahman Bin University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She has obtained her Ph.D. in Microbial Toxicology from Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi and Council for Scientific Industrial Research, IIIM Jammu/Srinagar, in 2010. She has extensive research experience in the field of infectious diseases, multidrug resistance (MDR), nanotechnology, drug development, and cancer therapeutics. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed research articles in the international journals of high repute and has edited one book. She is a member of the editorial board of several international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanotechnology for Infectious Diseases
Editors: Saif Hameed, Suriya Rehman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9190-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9189-8Published: 14 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9192-8Published: 15 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9190-4Published: 13 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 640
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Parasitology, Microbiology, Virology, Biotechnology, Materials Science, general