The Microbiology of Respiratory System Infections: Volume 1 pdf

Dr. Mahendra Rai is a Senior Professor and UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty at the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India.
Professor Rai has published more than 400 research papers in Indian and foreign peer reviewedjournals, 50 books in association with some reputed publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, CRC, Taylor and Francis and Scientific Publisher, and more than 102 popular articles. Professor Rai’s research has provided seven patents. He is a member of several scientific societies. His area of expertise includes microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, the main research interest of his group is biogenic synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against multidrug resistance microbes. He believes that silver nanoparticles are the new generation of antimicrobials because of their potential against human pathogenic microbes and also for possibility of solving the problem of drug resistance by using a combination of the silver nanoparticles with different antibiotics. His research is highly interdisciplinary and combines microbial biotechnology with nanotechnology. He aims to focus on understanding the mechanism of biological synthesis of metal nanoparticles by microbes and also the toxicity issues. Recently, he has been interested in using of nanoparticles for the management of plant pathogens.
He has received several prestigious awards, including the father T.A. Mathias award (1989) from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini Award for book on Herbal Medicines by the Government of India. He also visited Brazil under TWAS-UNESCO Associateship (2002, Italy), as a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Bioenergetics, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2004), under Hungarian Scholarship to visit the Department of Plant Protection, Debrecen University, Hungary (2006, 2008, 2015), as a Visiting Professor, Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun Poland (2012, 2014, 2015); also as a Visiting Scientist, Biological Chemistry Laboratory, State University of Campinas under Indo-Brazil programme (2009-2012), and in 2013 under FAPESP programme. In 2015 (October- November), he was a visiting scientist at Nanotechnology Center, VSB Technological University of Ostrava.
Dr. Rai serves as a referee for 20 international journals and is a member of the editorial board of ten national and international journals. He has approximately three decades of teaching and research experience.
Dr. Rai has numerous international collaborations, including Argentina, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Brazil and USA in microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology.

The Microbiology of Respiratory System Infections: Volume 1 pdf by Mahendra Rai

The Microbiology of Respiratory System Infections reviews modern approaches in the diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis of respiratory system infections. The book is very useful for researchers, scientists, academics, medical practitioners, graduate and postgraduate students, and specialists from pharmaceutical and laboratory diagnostic companies. The book has been divided into three sections according to the types of respiratory pathogens.
The first section contains reviews on the most common and epidemiologically important respiratory viruses, such as influenza virus, severe acute respiratory system coronavirus, and recently discovered Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
The second section is devoted to bacterial and fungal pathogens, which discusses etiology and pathogenesis including infections in patients with compromised immune system, and infections caused by fungal pathogens, such as Aspergillus and Pneumocystis.
The third section incorporates treatment approaches against different types of bacterial infections of the lower respiratory tract. This section reviews classical antimicrobial and phytomedical approaches as well as the application of nanotechnology against respiratory pathogens.
Offers the most up to date information on the microbiology of lower respiratory system infections Features contributors from across the world, presenting questions of interest to readers of both developed and developing countries Reviews the most common and epidemiologically important respiratory viruses Discusses the etiology and pathogenesis of bacterial and fungal pathogens including infections in patients with compromised immune system, and infections caused by fungal pathogens, such as Aspergillus and Pneumocystis