Limited Offer
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Protozoan Diseases
- 1st Edition - May 29, 2024
- Editor: Tarun Kumar Bhatt
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 6 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 2 4 5 - 0
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Protozoan Diseases discusses major protozoan diseases such as Malaria, Leishmaniasis, etc., including other clinically minor protozoan diseas… Read more
Purchase options
Institutional subscription on ScienceDirect
Request a sales quoteThe Diagnosis and Treatment of Protozoan Diseases discusses major protozoan diseases such as Malaria, Leishmaniasis, etc., including other clinically minor protozoan diseases. This book provides all essential information to professional researchers and medical personnel about the disease, causative organism, and their lifecycle, diagnostics, and treatments, including drugs and vaccine, resistance, and key points of future research. Infectious diseases are accountable for millions of deaths every year throughout the globe. Among them, significant contributors are protozoan parasites.
Despite the many research group working on the various protozoan diseases, there are still major gaps to fill. The authors of this book have critically reviewed all the aspects of major protozoan diseases, their diagnostics, and treatments, including resistance.
Despite the many research group working on the various protozoan diseases, there are still major gaps to fill. The authors of this book have critically reviewed all the aspects of major protozoan diseases, their diagnostics, and treatments, including resistance.
- Presents comprehensive coverage on all aspects of major protozoan diseases
- Includes updates on their lifecycle, diagnostics, and treatment
- Covers future research that may help eradicate these diseases
Professional researchers in the field, and graduate students, working in the area of protozoan parasites and drug development to combat the diseases, Medical professionals involved in protozoan parasite diseases
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Brief introduction to infectious diseases
- Infectious diseases
- Protozoan diseases
- Epidemiology of protozoan diseases
- Chapter 2. Malaria
- Introduction
- Global burden
- Life cycle and differences between different species
- Diagnosis
- Classical diagnostic techniques versus advance techniques
- Classical diagnostic techniques
- Rapid detection approaches
- Molecular techniques
- Noninvasive diagnosis
- Advanced techniques
- New challenges in diagnostic/diagnostic marker
- Treatment
- Chloroquine
- Artemisinin
- Artemisinin-based combination therapies
- Amodiaquine
- Mefloquine
- Transmission blocking drugs
- Atovaquone
- Proguanil
- Antibiotics
- New-generation antimalarial drugs
- Vaccine
- Preerythrocytic vaccines
- Transmission-blocking vaccines
- Whole parasite vaccines
- Novel strategies
- Drug resistance
- Quinolines
- Antifolates
- Atovaquone
- Artemisinin
- Multidrug resistance
- Urgency
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Leishmaniasis
- Introduction
- Global burden
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis
- Conventional diagnosis
- Recent advancement
- Advanced molecular methods
- Nanodiagnosis
- Recent developments in the treatment of leishmaniasis
- Drug repurposing
- Nanotechnology
- Host-directed therapy
- Antimicrobial peptides
- Vaccine
- First-generation vaccines
- Whole-killed vaccines
- Fractionated Leishmania antigens
- Second-generation vaccines
- Genetically modified parasite vaccines
- Third-generation vaccines
- New strategy of vaccines
- Vaccine antigen delivery systems
- Chimeric vaccines
- Nonpathogen Leishmania spp. in vaccination
- Viral-like particle vaccines
- mRNA vaccines
- Conclusions and future perspectives
- Chapter 4. Trypanosomiasis
- Introduction
- life cycle and differences between different species
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Drug resistance
- Urgency
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Trichomoniasis
- Introduction
- Morphology
- Transmission
- Clinical features
- Pathogenesis
- Pathologic features
- Life cycle and differences between different species
- Trichomonas-related human and nonhuman species
- Diagnosis
- Culture
- Advanced techniques for the diagnosis of trichomoniasis
- Molecular methods
- New challenges in diagnostic/diagnostic marker
- Treatment
- Vaccine: advancement in vaccine discovery
- Drug resistance
- Urgency
- Tinidazole
- Ornidazole
- Secnidazole
- Nimorazole
- Carnidazole
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Giardiasis
- Introduction
- Life cycle of Giardia duodenalis
- Species variation
- Diagnosis of giardiasis
- Treatment of giardiasis
- Vaccine and the advancement of vaccine discovery
- The way forward
- Chapter 7. Balantidiasis
- Introduction
- Life cycle and differences between species
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Chapter 8. Protozoan diseases having less global burden
- Babesiosis
- Epidemiology
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Prevention and control
- Naegleriasis
- Epidemiology
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Prevention and control
- Acanthamoebiasis
- Epidemiology
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Cystoisosporiasis
- Epidemiology
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Blastocystosis
- Epidemiology
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Dientamoebiasis
- Epidemiology
- Life cycle
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Prevention and control
- Chapter 9. Summary of advancement in protozoan disease diagnosis and treatment
- Introduction
- Treatment of protozoan diseases
- Diagnosis of protozoan diseases
- Vaccines for protozoan diseases
- Index
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 29, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443191619
- eBook ISBN: 9780443152450
TB
Tarun Kumar Bhatt
Tarun Kumar Bhatt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, at the Central University of Rajasthan, India. He received his PhD from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi and gained post-doctoral experience at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. He has published over 25 articles and has extensive experience researching drug and vaccine development.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Rajasthan, India