Viral Infections and Antiviral Therapies
- 1st Edition - November 10, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Amal Kumar Dhara, Amit Kumar Nayak
- Language: English
Viral Infections and Antiviral Therapies provides comprehensive coverage of viral infections and their transmission. Coverage includes antiviral agents, therapeutics, their mechan… Read more
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Description
Description
Key features
Key features
- Covers emerging and sexually transmitted viruses, including mode of transmission and pathophysiology of viral infections
- Describes antiviral agents and therapeutics for viruses such as rotaviruses, enteroviruses and coronaviruses
- Discusses strategies for the delivery of antiviral agents and vaccinations
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface
Amal Kumar Dhara
Section I: Introduction
1. Introduction to antiviral therapy
Amal Kumar Dhara
Section II: Viral infections and transmission
2. Emerging viral diseases
Agniva Majumdar and Pradip Kumar Jana
3. Evolution and transmission of viruses
Shalini Upadhyay
4. Mode of viral infections and transmissions
Sora Yasri
5. Transmission and Intervention Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2
Michael K. Danquah
6. Sexually transmitted viral infections
A Dasgupta
7. Testing of viral infections
Shalini Upadhyay
8. Electron microscopic methods for virus diagnosis
Nadeesh Adassooriya
Section III: Antiviral agents and therapeutics
9. Virotherapy
Sathiamoorthi Thangavelu, Palanivel Velmurugan, Saikishore Ramanathan and Ranjithkumar Dhandapani
10. Challenges in designing antiviral agents
Edeildo Ferreira da Silva Junior
11. Anti-influenza agents
Ashwini Chauhan and Sambuddha Chakraborty
12. Anti-herpes virus agents
Keshab Mondal
13. Antiretroviral Therapies
Debjit Chakraborty
14. Rotavirus and anti-rotaviral agents: Trends and advances
Ujjwal De
15. Current therapeutic strategies and novel antiviral compounds for the treatment of non-polio enteroviruses
Regina Sharmila Dass
16. Antiviral agents against flaviviruses
Edeildo Ferreira da Silva Junior
17. Pathophysiology of HIV and strategies to eliminate AIDS as a public health threat
Omar Sued and Tomas Grosso
18. Herbal drugs to combat viruses
Benil PB, Rajakrishnan Rajagopal, Ahmed Alfarhan and Jacob Thomas
19. Strategies for delivery of antiviral agents
Blessing Atim Aderibigbe
20. Nanovesicles for delivery of antiviral agents
Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny
21. Antiviral biomaterials
Sandhya Khunger
22. Antiviral biomolecules from marine inhabitantsBalasubramanian
Vellaisamy, Ishwarya Ayyanar, Subidsha Suyambu Krishnan, Akila Ravindran and Sunandha Jeeva Bharathi
23. Plant polysaccharides as antiviral agents
Amit Kumar Nayak
24. Antiviral peptides against dengue virus
Chit-Laa Poh and Michelle Felicia Lee
25. mRNA vaccines for COVID-19
Anamika Sengupta
26. Immunotherapy as an emerging and promising tool against viral infections
Prof. Vahid Reza Askari
27. Role of nutraceuticals as immunomodulators to combat viruses
Benil PB, Vrenda Roy, Rajakrishnan Rajagopal and Ahmed Alfarhan
Section IV: Others
28. In vitro and in vivo approaches for evaluating antiviral efficacy
Ram Gopal Nitharwal
29. Clinical trials and regulatory considerations of antiviral agents
Samir Bhargava, Dr. Bhavna, Amal Kumar Dhara, Neeraj Sethiya, Jagannath Sahoo, Havagiray Chitme, Mayuri Gupta, Navraj Upreti and Yusra Ahmad
30. Future perspectives of antiviral therapy
Debesh Chandra Bhattacharya
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 11, 2022
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Amal Kumar Dhara
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Amit Kumar Nayak
Amit Kumar Nayak (M. Pharm, Ph.D) is currently working as Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Siksha ‘O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India. He has earned his PhD from IFTM University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has over 14 years of research experiences in the field of pharmaceutics, especially in the development and characterization of novel biopolymeric and nanostructured drug delivery systems. Till date, he has authored more than 138 research and review publications in various high-impact peer-reviewed journals and 135 book chapters. He has edited/authored 23 international books to his credit. Dr. Nayak has presented his research work at several conferences. He has received University Foundation Day Research Award, 2019 and 2022 by Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. Dr. Nayak is a life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and a registered pharmacist.