Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance: A Complete Handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and solutions related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment. This book addresses global scenarios, sources of antimicrobial drugs, and the fate and transport of these drugs in the environment and living organisms. It explains the approach, protocols, and experiments for detecting and mitigating antimicrobial resistance phenomena, making it an essential resource for understanding and combating AMR. Additional sections highlight the silent pandemic of AMR, emphasizing the mismanagement of antimicrobials in humans and animals as key contributors.
Finally, the book discusses global impacts, including the economic burden on low- and middle-income countries and the efforts of the WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS). With a systematic approach, it provides researchers and academicians with routine and advanced knowledge in the field of environmental antimicrobial resistance, including detection and mitigation strategies. This handbook is designed to meet the educational needs of students and professionals in the life sciences, environmental science, microbiology, and pharmacy. It offers comprehensive coverage of the current status, reasons for emerging drug-resistant microorganisms, and solutions for mitigating environmental antimicrobial resistance.
Finally, the book discusses global impacts, including the economic burden on low- and middle-income countries and the efforts of the WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS). With a systematic approach, it provides researchers and academicians with routine and advanced knowledge in the field of environmental antimicrobial resistance, including detection and mitigation strategies. This handbook is designed to meet the educational needs of students and professionals in the life sciences, environmental science, microbiology, and pharmacy. It offers comprehensive coverage of the current status, reasons for emerging drug-resistant microorganisms, and solutions for mitigating environmental antimicrobial resistance.
Table of Contents
1. An introduction to environmental antimicrobial resistance phenomenon2. Global scenario on antimicrobial resistance
3. Fate and transport of antimicrobial drugs in the environment and living organisms
4. Role of the human community in environmental antimicrobial resistance
5. Role of animals in environmental antimicrobial resistance
6. Role of hospitals in environmental antimicrobial resistance
7. Role of pharmaceutical industries in environmental antimicrobial resistance
8. Role of agricultural plants and agricultural lands in environmental antimicrobial resistance
9. Role of municipal waste sites in environmental antimicrobial resistance
10. Environmental drivers for AMR selection, coresistance, and gene dissemination
11. Detection of environmental antimicrobial resistance
12. Bacterial Plasmids: Role in emergence and dissemination of AMR genes in the environmental setting
13. Impact of emergent drug-resistant bacteria
14. Impact of emergent drug-resistant fungi
15. Impact of emergent drug-resistant virus
16. Impact of emergent drug-resistant protozoa
17. Management of environmental antimicrobial resistance
18. Advanced genomic approaches for resistance management
19. Role of Environmental Health in the management of antimicrobial resistance
20. Case studies from diverse geographic regions
21. Impact of COVID-19 on environmental microbial resistance
22. Policies on addressing environmental antimicrobial resistance
Authors
Dijendra Nath Roy Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA. Dr. Dijendra Nath Roy completed his PhD from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, under the Jadavpur University of India and postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Dr. Roy started his career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the National Institute of Technology- Agartala, Tripura, India, in 2013, and presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the National Institute of Technology - Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. He has more than 25 peer-reviewed international publications along with being engaged as principal/co-principal investigator of more than five national projects on antimicrobial resistance and drug development funded by national agencies like the Department of Science and Technology (DST, Govt. of India), Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Govt. of India), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR, Govt. of India), etc. Dr. Roy has delivered numerous invited lectures at several international meetings in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Maldives, and India. Dr. Roy has already been engaged in the guidance of five Ph.D. students in the field of antimicrobial resistance and drug development. Additionally, Dr. Roy has already contributed his enormous knowledge of antimicrobial drug resistance by publishing several artciels and two international books for academicians. Iqbal Ahmad Professor and Ex-chairman, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.Dr. Iqbal Ahmad has been a senior professor in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University, India, He has more than 250 peer-reviewed international publications along with being engaged as Principal/co-principal investigator of many national/international projects on Applied and Environmental Microbiology. His research work has been cited more than 21000 times as per Google Scholar Records. He has been a visiting Professor at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, since 2016.
He has a lot of experience working on antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria from medical and environmental sources. His recent research interest in tackling the environmental AMR problem in India is supported by the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, in collaboration with the British Government, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/NERC. Dr. Ahmad has delivered numerous invited lectures at national/international meetings and guided more than 20 Ph.D. students in the field of environmental and Applied Microbiology. Additionally, Dr. Ahmad has already contributed his enormous microbiology and drug resistance knowledge by publishing 09 international books for academicians.
