Microbes for Human Life
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. History of medical microbiology/A.C. Kharkwal, H. Kharkwal, K. Bhatnagar and A. Varma. 2. Medicinal plants for human life/H. Kharkwal, A.C. Kharkwal, N. Verma, R. Prasad, A. Das, K. Bhatnagar and A. Varma. 3. Herbal drugs and nutraceuticals in 21 century health care/P. Pushpangadhan. 4. Beneficial microorganisms: herbal and medicinal plants/R. Prasad, R. Malla, H. Kharkwal, K. Bhatnagar, A. Das, N. Verma, A.P. Garg and A. Varma. 5. Fermented foods for human life/J.P. Tamang. 6. Intervention of microbes in promotion of nutritional attributes of Yogurt/A. Das and A. Varma. 7. Fermented health foods: boon to mankind/A.Das, K. Bhatnagar, R. Prasad, A. Paul, T. Kumar, M.S. Kumar, H. Kharkwal, N. Verma and A. Varma. 8. Emerging infectious diseases in humans/M.S.K. Jayadev, D. Srivastava, S. Bhatnagar and A.K. Dubey. 9. Microbial diversity in heavy metal remediation/S.S. Ahluwalia and D. Goyal. 10. Microbial management of pollutants from textile industry/S. Gupta, Deepti, S. Kuhar, K.K. Sharma, A. Singh and R.C. Kuhad. 11. The Odyssey of human Malaria parasite: past, present and future/R. Sarin and Y.D. Sharma. 12. Global review on malaria: impact on human life/V.P. Sharma. 13. The bird-flu virus H5N1: a pandemic in the waiting/M. Fernando and S.K. Lal. 14. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) outbreak: lessons learnt and future perspective/N. Satija and S.K. Lal. 15. Search for an ever elusive "Guardian-angel" novel antibiotic: myth or reality/S.M. Das Gupta, P.S. Chauhan and C.S. Nautiyal. 16. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: an emerging problem/M.V. Basil and M. Bose. 17. Mycobacterium tuberculosis: pathogenesis, diagnosis, chemotherapy and strategy for vaccination/P.S. Bisen and R.P. Tiwari. 18. Helicobacter pylori infection: diseases and cure: a molecular approach/A. Sharma and S.K. Dhar. 19. Pathogenesis of Salmonella typhi and typhoid fever: multiple drug resistance, vaccines and therapeutics/S.K. Jain, A. Madani and N. Hamid. 20. History and taxonomy of Candida and Candidiasis/R. Gautam, A.P. Garg and A. Garg. 21. Types of candidiasis and their management/A.P. Garg and R. Gautam. 22. Control of candida infections and mechanism of action of respective drugs/R. Gautam and A.P. Garg. 23. Potential of enzymes in therapeutics/R.K. Saxena, L. Agarwal, K. Dutt, S. Saxena and J. Isar. 24. Combating multidrug resistant infectious microbes: a burgeoning problem/S. Saxena. 25. Proteomics and genomics approach to study plant-microbes cross communication/R. Malla, U. Pokharel, R. Prasad and A. Varma. 26. Omega-3/6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, essential to human health, from thraustochytrids/Owen P. Ward and Ajay Singh. Index.
"The human body contains 20 times more microbes than it does cells and in each cell there are about 10 microbes. Approximately 99% of the viruses and bacteria inhabiting our body are yet to be identified. Some of our colonists, viruses in the cells of our brain influence even our thoughts and feelings. This book illustrates how microbes and human life go hand in hand.
Microbes for Human Life elaborates the relevance of microbes and their role in everyday human life, microbes in food production and agriculture, in biotechnology and industry, and in ecology and environment. It also discusses some of the negative impacts of microbes on our world, such as their role in causing diseases and bio-terrorism. But the primary focus is on how microbes, in their incredible variety, are essential to human life. The book presents the many ways in which we intentionally, and at times unintentionally, utilize microbes to improve our lives and enhance our life experience."
