Professor Subhash Chandra Parija is the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, A Deemed-to-be University at Pondicherry, and is the former Director of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India. With almost 45 years of teaching and research experience in the field of medical microbiology, Prof. Parija is a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expert and has been consulted to draft guidelines on preventing foodborne parasites. He was on the MD examination boards at Colombo University, Sri Lanka; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; and the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He received a D.Sc. from Madras University for his contributions in the field of medical parasitology. . He has one granted patent, one published patent, 23 copyrights, and one technology transfer. Prof Parija authored /edited 19 books, including the most popular “Textbook of Medical Microbiology &Immunology  ”, “Effective Medical Communication, The A,B,C,D, E of it”; & “Textbook of Parasitic Zoonoses “ all published by Springer. He has published more than 430 papers in the reputed national and international journals. Dr. Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy is working as a Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Prof. Shivaprakash has worked diligently in the field of medical Mycology for the last 21 years, being involved in the research activities on fungi and fungal infections, training personnel in this speciality, providing service of identification of the fungi, supplying cultures for teaching, research, diagnostic activities and conducting national level external quality assurance program for mycology. He has written sixteen chapters and has more than 280 publications .He is presently a core member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) on antifungals

• Part I: General Mycology.- Chapter 1. Taxonomy and Classification of Fungi.- Chapter 2.    Host-Fungi Relationship: Pathogenicity and Immunity.- Chapter 3. Fungal Immunology.- Chapter 4. Fungal Genomics.- Chapter 5. Fungal Proteomics.- Chapter 6. Epidemiology of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 7. Diagnosis of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 8. Treatment and Management of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 9. Antifungal agents and resistance.- Chapter 10. Prevention and Control of Fungal Zoonoses.- Part II: Superficial Fungal Zoonotic Infections.- Chapter 11. Dermatophytosis.- Chapter 12. Malassezia infections.- Part III: Subcutaneous Fungal Zoonotic Infections?.- Chapter 13. Phaeohyphomycosis.- Chapter 14. Feline Sporotrichosis.- Part IV:  Systemic Fungal Zoonotic Infections?.- Chapter 15. Coccidioidomycosis.- Chapter 16. Paracoccidioidomycosis.- Chapter 17. Zoonotic paracoccidioidomycosis ceti.- Chapter 18. Blastomycosis.- Chapter 19. Histoplasmosis.- Part IV: Opportunistic Fungal Zoonoses?.- Chapter 20.    Aspergillosis in animals and birds.- Chapter 21. Cryptococcosis.- Chapter 22. Adiaspiromycoses.- Chapter 23. Talaromycosis.- Chapter 24. Pneumocystosis.

Professor Subhash Chandra Parija is the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, A Deemed-to-be University at Pondicherry, and is the former Director of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India. With almost 45 years of teaching and research experience in the field of medical microbiology, Prof. Parija is a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expert and has been consulted to draft guidelines on preventing foodborne parasites. He was on the MD examination boards at Colombo University, Sri Lanka; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; and the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He received a D.Sc. from Madras University for his contributions in the field of medical parasitology. . He has one granted patent, one published patent, 23 copyrights, and one technology transfer. Prof Parija authored /edited 19 books, including the most popular “Textbook of Medical Microbiology &Immunology  ”, “Effective Medical Communication, The A,B,C,D, E of it”; & “Textbook of Parasitic Zoonoses “ all published by Springer. He has published more than 430 papers in the reputed national and international journals. Dr. Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy is working as a Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Prof. Shivaprakash has worked diligently in the field of medical Mycology for the last 21 years, being involved in the research activities on fungi and fungal infections, training personnel in this speciality, providing service of identification of the fungi, supplying cultures for teaching, research, diagnostic activities and conducting national level external quality assurance program for mycology. He has written sixteen chapters and has more than 280 publications .He is presently a core member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) on antifungals

• Part I: General Mycology.- Chapter 1. Taxonomy and Classification of Fungi.- Chapter 2.    Host-Fungi Relationship: Pathogenicity and Immunity.- Chapter 3. Fungal Immunology.- Chapter 4. Fungal Genomics.- Chapter 5. Fungal Proteomics.- Chapter 6. Epidemiology of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 7. Diagnosis of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 8. Treatment and Management of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 9. Antifungal agents and resistance.- Chapter 10. Prevention and Control of Fungal Zoonoses.- Part II: Superficial Fungal Zoonotic Infections.- Chapter 11. Dermatophytosis.- Chapter 12. Malassezia infections.- Part III: Subcutaneous Fungal Zoonotic Infections?.- Chapter 13. Phaeohyphomycosis.- Chapter 14. Feline Sporotrichosis.- Part IV:  Systemic Fungal Zoonotic Infections?.- Chapter 15. Coccidioidomycosis.- Chapter 16. Paracoccidioidomycosis.- Chapter 17. Zoonotic paracoccidioidomycosis ceti.- Chapter 18. Blastomycosis.- Chapter 19. Histoplasmosis.- Part IV: Opportunistic Fungal Zoonoses?.- Chapter 20.    Aspergillosis in animals and birds.- Chapter 21. Cryptococcosis.- Chapter 22. Adiaspiromycoses.- Chapter 23. Talaromycosis.- Chapter 24. Pneumocystosis.

Professor Subhash Chandra Parija is the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, A Deemed-to-be University at Pondicherry, and is the former Director of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India. With almost 45 years of teaching and research experience in the field of medical microbiology, Prof. Parija is a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expert and has been consulted to draft guidelines on preventing foodborne parasites. He was on the MD examination boards at Colombo University, Sri Lanka; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; and the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He received a D.Sc. from Madras University for his contributions in the field of medical parasitology. . He has one granted patent, one published patent, 23 copyrights, and one technology transfer. Prof Parija authored /edited 19 books, including the most popular “Textbook of Medical Microbiology &Immunology  ”, “Effective Medical Communication, The A,B,C,D, E of it”; & “Textbook of Parasitic Zoonoses “ all published by Springer. He has published more than 430 papers in the reputed national and international journals. Dr. Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy is working as a Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Prof. Shivaprakash has worked diligently in the field of medical Mycology for the last 21 years, being involved in the research activities on fungi and fungal infections, training personnel in this speciality, providing service of identification of the fungi, supplying cultures for teaching, research, diagnostic activities and conducting national level external quality assurance program for mycology. He has written sixteen chapters and has more than 280 publications .He is presently a core member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) on antifungals

• Part I: General Mycology.- Chapter 1. Taxonomy and Classification of Fungi.- Chapter 2.    Host-Fungi Relationship: Pathogenicity and Immunity.- Chapter 3. Fungal Immunology.- Chapter 4. Fungal Genomics.- Chapter 5. Fungal Proteomics.- Chapter 6. Epidemiology of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 7. Diagnosis of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 8. Treatment and Management of Fungal Zoonoses/Sapronoses.- Chapter 9. Antifungal agents and resistance.- Chapter 10. Prevention and Control of Fungal Zoonoses.- Part II: Superficial Fungal Zoonotic Infections.- Chapter 11. Dermatophytosis.- Chapter 12. Malassezia infections.- Part III: Subcutaneous Fungal Zoonotic Infections?.- Chapter 13. Phaeohyphomycosis.- Chapter 14. Feline Sporotrichosis.- Part IV:  Systemic Fungal Zoonotic Infections?.- Chapter 15. Coccidioidomycosis.- Chapter 16. Paracoccidioidomycosis.- Chapter 17. Zoonotic paracoccidioidomycosis ceti.- Chapter 18. Blastomycosis.- Chapter 19. Histoplasmosis.- Part IV: Opportunistic Fungal Zoonoses?.- Chapter 20.    Aspergillosis in animals and birds.- Chapter 21. Cryptococcosis.- Chapter 22. Adiaspiromycoses.- Chapter 23. Talaromycosis.- Chapter 24. Pneumocystosis.