Water-Associated Infectious Diseases

Prof. Shailendra K. Saxena is a Vice Dean and Professor at King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India. His primary research interest is to understand molecular mechanisms of host defense during human viral infections and to develop new strategies for predictive, preventive and therapeutic strategies for them. Prof. Saxena’s work has been published in several reputed international journals with high impact factor. His work has been highly cited by numerous investigators globally and he has been honored by several prestigious National and International Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships in India and abroad, including Young Scientist Awards, BBSRC India Partnering Award and he has been named as the Global Leader in Science by The Scientist magazine (USA) and International Opinion Leader/Expert involved in the vaccination for JE by IPIC (UK).  Prof Saxena has been elected as Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology UK (FRSB), The Royal Society of Chemistry UK (FRSC), The Academy of Environmental Biology, India (FAEB), Indian Virological Society (FIVS), The Biotech Research Society, India (FBRS); and Fellowship of the (European) Academy of Translational Medicine Professionals, Austria (FacadTM). He has been awarded Dr. JC Bose National Award by Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Min. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India) in Biotechnology.

• Chapter 1- Introduction.- Chapter 2- Etiological agents of Water Associated Infectious Diseases (WAID).- Chapter 3- Evaluation and interplay of human water associated pathogens.- Chapter 4- Epidemiology of water associated disease.- Chapter 5- Emerging and re-emerging water associated Infectious Diseases.- Chapter 6_Impact of the climate change/global warming on the water associated infectious.- Chapter 7- Hazards associated with contaminated water.- Chapter 8- Global strategies and schemes for prevention of water associated infectious diseases.- Chapter 9- Novel approaches to detect water associated infectious diseases.-Chapter 10- Treatment of water to prevent WAID.- Chapter 11- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in alliance with Conventional Medicine (CM) for water associated infectious diseases.- Chapter 12- Treatment for water associated infectious diseases.- Chapter 13- Economic assessment of water associated infectious diseases.- Chapter 14- Conclusions.- Chapter 15- Future Perspectives.