Drug delivery for fighting infectious diseases: a global perspective

Nanoparticle based Drug Delivery Systems for Treatment of Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases in perspective

Infectious diseases represent an ever-changing field of practice. Virtually each week brings new information, some with the potential to adjust or reinvent the current clinical practice. It is our task as clinicians to browse through field literature, through reports of randomized controlled trials, excerpts of conference proceedings, and to choose relevant scoops with high applicability in pat...

Does “Flattening the Curve” Affect Critical Care Services Delivery for COVID-19? A Global Health Perspective

During this coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic, nations are taking bold measures to mitigate the spread of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in order to avoid the overwhelming its critical care facilities. While these “flattening the curve” initiatives are showing signs of impeding the potential surge in COVID-19 cases, it is not known whet...

Infectious diseases: an ecological perspective.

in human history. Between 1348 and 1352 in many European countries plague was estimated to have killed a third to a half of the population [1,2]. It was not swords and guns but imported microbes, carried by explorers over oceans, that defeated native populations in the Americas [3] and in Australia and southern Africa the arrival of Europeans killed off local populations by introducing infectio...

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Epidemiological Perspective

Over the past 30 years, at least 30 new infectious diseases have emerged to threaten the health of millions of people across the globe. The major challenge to combat these infections is that for many of them, there is no specific treatment or cure or vaccine. There is limited scope of preventing or controlling them. The contributory factors include urbanization and destruction of natural habita...