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Covid-19: Biomedical Perspectives

  • 1st Edition, Volume 50 - May 24, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Charles S. Pavia, Volker Gurtler
  • Language: English

Covid-19: Biomedical Perspectives, Volume 50 in the Methods in Microbiology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters writ… Read more

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Covid-19: Biomedical Perspectives, Volume 50 in the Methods in Microbiology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Individual chapters in this new release include Sensitive methods for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, Treatment of COVID-19 using Chinese herbal medicine, Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 is evolving and its impact on COVID-19 animal models and vaccine evaluation, Methods in machine learning to identify COVID-19 literature, COVID-19 seasonal behavior and the mutational landscape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, CRISPR use in Diagnosis and Therapy for COVID-19, and much more.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in Methods of Microbiology serials
  • Updated release includes the latest information on Covid-19: Biomedical Perspectives

Readership

Undergraduates, graduates, academics, and researchers in the field of microbiology

Table of contents

Preface
Volker Gűrtler and Charles Pavia

1. Sensitive methods for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA
Xi Chen and Simin Xia

2. Treatment of COVID-19 using Chinese herbal medicine
William Cho

3. Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 is evolving and its impact on COVID-19 animal models and vaccine evaluation
Seshadri S. Vasan

4. Methods in machine learning to identify COVID-19 literature
Anhvinh Doanvo

5. COVID-19 seasonal behavior and the mutational landscape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles

6.
Afsar Raza Naqvi

7. CRISPR use in Diagnosis and Therapy for COVID-19
Yashpal Singh Malik, Pallavi Deol and Rahul Kaushik

8.
Kuldeep Dhama

9. Recent and advanced nanotechnological strategies for COVID-19 vaccine development
Chinekwu Sherridan Nwagwu

10. A review of hypersensitivity methods to measure cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2
Victor Matheu and Yvelise Barrios

11. Role of mRNA technology and gene silencing in manufacturing vaccines against SARS-CoV-2
Pratik Talukder

12. Hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and how it might be overcome
Charles Pavia

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 50
  • Published: May 31, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

CP

Charles S. Pavia

Dr. Pavia is a Microbiologist/Immunologist and an Associate Professor at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, New York. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York Medical College. He previously worked and held research appointments at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, NY, and the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research in Washington, DC. Throughout his career, he has focused his research activities on various pathogenic microbes with a particular emphasis on the disease-causing spirochetes and certain protozoan pathogens. His research has covered multiple areas including the basic microbiologic, immunologic, molecular, diagnostic and clinical aspects of Lyme disease, syphilis, malaria and toxoplasmosis. He has published widely on these areas in peer-reviewed journals, as well as given numerous research presentations of his work at national and international conferences. As a principal investigator or co-investigator, he has received research funding from the NIH, the CDC, the J.M. Foundation, and various other organizations to support his research work. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Microbiological Methods for the past 25 years, and has been an ad-hoc reviewer for a wide range of other scientific journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA

VG

Volker Gurtler

Dr Gurtler completed a Ph.D. program in 1996 at La Trobe University in the Department of Microbiology. The main contribution of this work was the development of a universal bacterial typing technique based on the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region. The technique is now extensively used in many areas of Microbiology including Diagnostic, Environmental and Veterinary Microbiology. Citations to the articles Dr Gurtler wrote on this topic total >1000 with >830 citations alone to the 1996 review published in the journal “Microbiology”. Dr Gurtler wrote an invited review on genomic typing, taxonomy and identification of bacterial isolates for the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM). In addition to fundamental research, Dr Gurtler has also had experience with the application of this technology to the medical diagnostic laboratory in the fields of molecular microbiology and human molecular genetics. Dr Gurtler has been involved full time in diagnostic microbiology over many years resulting in the adoption of a method that identifies Mycobacterium species directly from clinical specimens without the need for culture in specimens positive for acid fast bacilli, the discovery of Nocardia veterana, and the development of many diagnostic tests.

In the last twelve years Dr Gurtler has been an Editor for the Journal of Microbiological Methods (JMM) and in the last 5 years Serial Editor of Methods in Microbiology (MIM) with the publication of 9 volumes covering diverse subjects such as Biofilms, Nanotechnology, COVID-19 and Fluorescent Probes.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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