Overview

Antimicrobial resistance is a major global public health problem. This book focuses on the clinical implications of multi-drug resistant pathogens; tracking AMR and its evolutionary significance; antifungal resistance; and current and alternative treatment strategies for AMR, including antivirulent, antibiofilm and antimicrobial resistance breakers, repurposing of drugs, and probiotic therapy. Advances in antimicrobial stewardship, antibiotic policies from a global perspective and their impacts are also discussed. The book also explores the use of omics approaches to gain insights into antibacterial resistance, and includes chapters on the potential benefits of a ‘One Health approach’ describing the environmental and zoonotic sources of resistant genes and their effects on the global resistance pool.  

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Author:   Sabu Thomas
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.541kg
ISBN:  

9789811536571

ISBN 10:   9811536570
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   21 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

​Implications of Multidrug resistant pathogens in clinical settings Antimicrobial resistance: Microbial adaptation and evolution  Emerging microtechnologies and molecular tools for antimicrobial susceptibility testing and resistance detection  Current treatment regimen  and control measures for multidrug resistant pathogens in clinical settings and future perspectives Genomic tools to gain insights to the emergence of antibiotic resistant pathogens  Multidrug resistance in fungi Advances of antimicrobial stewardship and its impact on antimicrobial resistance in middle income countries Antimicrobial resistance genes: Transmission from environmental settings to humans AMR: One Health approach Antimicrobial resistance of zoonotic origin and its contribution towards resistance gene pool Alternative strategies to tackle antimicrobial resistance Repurposing of drugs, antimicrobial resistance breakers and combinatorial therapies 

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Dr. Sabu Thomas M.Sc., Ph.D. is a senior faculty scientist heading the Cholera and Biofilm Research Group at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (National Institute under the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India). Dr. Thomas has been working in the area of environmental and clinical pathogenic bacteria for more than two decades, with a special focus on gut and chronic wound infected pathogens, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and alternative strategies to curb AMR. Dr. Thomas’s team has published 12 book chapters and more than 75 research articles in prestigious journals at the national and international level, and edited one book. He has received various honors, including membership in the World Health Organization’s Global Task Force on Cholera Control. Currently, he is a member of the State Working Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance, and research coordinator for AMR activities in Kerala. He was part of the Second Indian Arctic Scientific Expedition team, formed by the Govt. of India to assess the bioprospecting potential of psychrophilic bacteria in the Polar region. He is also affiliated with various reputed organizations around the globe, including the Global Foodborne Infections Network, CHOLDInet - Global Laboratory Network for Cholera and other Diarrhoeal Infections, International Society for Infectious Diseases, and Freshwater Action Network South Asia.

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