Anaerobes of Clinical Significance

Edited By: Padmaja A. Shenoy, Aruna Poojary, Om Prakash

£83.99

A clinically relevant guide to anaerobic infections and their laboratory diagnostics. This text covers updated nomenclature, advancements in antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and infection control for C. difficile, with illustrations for better comprehension.

Anaerobes of Clinical Significance is a clinically relevant textbook, containing organism-based discussions that provide comprehensive information on anaerobic infections and their laboratory diagnostics. It is a succinct text comprising key concepts in laboratory diagnostic approaches with recent advancements and illustrations.
The book includes updated nomenclature in anaerobic bacteriology, with pointers for suspicion of anaerobic infections, and concepts pertaining to anaerobic diagnostics are depicted with in-house images/photographs for better comprehension. Special emphasis is placed on infection control measures in Clostridioides difficile infections and fecal microbiota transplantation.
The content of this textbook is designed for medical graduates, research scholars, microbiologists, clinicians, and aspiring microbiologists working in the field of anaerobic bacteriology. This book fills the existing gap regarding the lack of extensive information, data, and way of handling anaerobic pathogens. This book will contain very recent updates to provide readers with up-to-date information, fostering a better understanding of a diverse range of methods for performing anaerobic antimicrobial susceptibility testing in the current global scenario.

Dr Padmaja A Shenoy, MD, is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, with more than twelve years of experience as a Clinical Microbiologist. Her primary research area is anaerobic bacteriology, with a focus on their antimicrobial susceptibility profiles. She has been published many times in national and international journals highlighting the importance of anaerobes.

Dr Aruna Poojary, with 19 years of expertise in Clinical Microbiology, Infection Control, and laboratory administration, serves as the Laboratory Director at Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai, India. Her interests focus on antimicrobial resistance and infection control, and she has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications nationally and internationally.

Dr Om Prakash is Deputy Head and Associate Professor at Symbiosis Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (SCCCS), Symbiosis International, (Deemed University), Pune, India. He has obtained a PhD in Microbiology, serving as Elected Chairman of the Subcommittee on Methanogenic Archaea of the ICSP-UK and has 18 years of experience in handling anaerobes.

Prashant Kumar Pandey, Seema Rohra, Sunil Jayakar, Rohit Sharma, Om Prakash, Dhiraj Dhotre, Rameshwari Singhal, Krishnakumar Yadav, Anuradha Dey, Priyanka Patil, Kalpana Pandit, Sushma Pednekar, Shaswati Nema, Anurag Bari, Tanvi Belalikar, Seema Shetty, Suneeta Sahu, Barnini Banerjee, Aruna Poojary, Pritam Pardeshi, Ujjwala Waghmare, Tulsi Subramaniam, Mayank Meshram, Priyamwada Upadhyay, Rekha Kumari, Vikram B. Lanjekar, Namrata Jiya, Ashwini Hagir, Shaifali Sharma, Manikprabhu N. Dhanorkar, Arati Bhadade, Komal Keswani, Meghna Palewar, Mridula Madiyal, Padmaja A. Shenoy, Shashidhar Vishwanath, Rani Sahu