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Professor Prakash Singh Bisen, PhD,D.Sc is an eminent scientist in the field of Biotechnology with over 32 years of research and teaching experience. He has one US Patent and an Indian Patent on Tuberculosis to his credit. He is also an author of over 130 research publicationsPresently, Professor Bisen is the Chairman of Bisen Biotech and Biopharma (P) Ltd. – a private equity venture which focuses on diagnostic solutions for widespread diseases. Professor Bisen is also the Chairman of the Vikrant Group, which focuses on advancing technical education through technical institutes at Gwalior and Indore, India.
Dr. G.B.K.S. Prasad is a Professor of Biochemistry at Jiwaji University, India and possess over 25 yrs of experience as a teacher and researcher in the field of Medical Biotechnology. He teaches Clinical Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology to Postgraduate students at Jiwaji University and published over 50 research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. He was at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene as a Commonwealth Staff Fellow. The focus of his research is Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Human and Microbial World | |
| Prologue | |
| Innovations in microbiology for human welfare | |
| The microbial world | |
| Future challenges: Metagenomics | |
| Gene Technology: Application and Techniques | |
| Prologue | |
| Introduction to Gene technology | |
| Nucleic acid hybridization | |
| DNA sequencing | |
| Polymerase chain reaction | |
| Omics technology and Microbes | |
| Bioinformatics in microbial technology | |
| Future challenges: The Biochips | |
| Molecular Diagnostic and Medical Microbiology | |
| Prologue | |
| Microbial biology | |
| Infection and immunity | |
| Bacterial pathogens and associated diseases | |
| Viral pathogen and associated diseases | |
| Prions | |
| Parasitic infections | |
| Fungal pathogen | |
| Microbial diagnostics | |
| Future challenges: Promises of pharmacogenomics and molecular testing | |
| Identification and Classification of Microbes | |
| Prologue | |
| Principles of taxonomy | |
| Using phenotypic characteristics to identify microbes | |
| Using genotypic character to identify microbes | |
| Characterizing strain differences | |
| Classification of microbes on the basis of phenotypic characteristics | |
| Classification of microbes on the basis of genotypic characteristics | |
| Future challenges: Aptamers for detection on pathogens | |
| Diversity of Microorganisms | |
| Prologue | |
| Physiology diversity of micro organism | |
| Thriving in terrestrial environment | |
| Aquatic environment | |
| Animal as habitat | |
| Arachea in extreme environment | |
| Biogeochemical cycling | |
| Environmental influence and control of microbial growth | |
| Micro organism and organic pollutants | |
| Micro organism and metal pollutants | |
| Environmentally transmitted pathogens | |
| Microbes as friends of man | |
| Microbes as disastrous enemy | |
| Future challenges: Microbes in space | |
| Microbes in Agriculture | |
| Prologue | |
| The soil plant micro organism | |
| Root microbial interaction | |
| Pathogenic microbes in agriculture | |
| Microbes as a tool of genetic engineering | |
| Future challenges: Functional genomic approach for improvement of crops | |
| Microbes as a Tool for Industry and Research | |
| Prologue | |
| Historical development | |
| Clinical diagnostics in a new era | |
| Industrial microorganisms and product formation | |
| Major industrial products for health and industry | |
| Food diagnostics, preservation and food borne microbial diseases | |
| Future challenges: Next generation diagnostics industry | |
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