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"The timely volume is a comprehensive review of the evolution, diagnosis, prevention, control, and treatment strategies (both modern as well as complementary and alternative modes) being used against COVID-19. With chapters written by experts in diverse medical fields from around the world, the volume presents authentic and easily understood information on this novel and often deadly virus. The book is organized in sections that cover pathology, epidemiology and diagnosis; prevention strategies; and treatment. The book first covers the morphology, pathogenesis, genome organization and replication of coronavirus (COVID-19) and then goes on to address epidemiology and pathogenesis, the psychological effects, and detection assays and techniques. Chapters on prevention strategies discuss social distancing and quarantine, face masks and hand sanitizers, lockdown strategies, and vaccines. The authors also cover diverse treatment strategies, including using medicinal plants, natural products, and traditional Chinese medicines as well as nanomedicines. A chapter on recent therapeutic developments is also included. The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multidisciplinary Review of Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment is designed for students, teachers and researchers in medical sciences and the allied health professions such as pharmacy, nursing, alternative and complementary medicine. Science journalists writers, and health policymakers will find the volume to be a source of valuable information also. "-- Provided by publisher.
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Morphology, Pathogenesis, Genome Organization, and Replication of Coronavirus (COVID-19) / Sadia Javed, Bahzad Ahmad Farhan, Maria Shabbir, Areeba Tahseen, Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, and Marius Moga -- Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of COVID-19 / Sidrah Tariq Khan and Sagheer Ahmed -- Psychological Effects of COVID-19 / Binish Khaliq, Mehvish Azam, Ahmed Akrem, M. Yasin Ashraf, Sumera Anwar, Arif Malik, Samina Yaqoob, and Hawa ZE Jaafar -- Detection Assays and Techniques Against COVID-19 / Shahzad Sharif, Maham Saeed, Javed Hussain Shah, Sajjad Hussain, Ahmad Adnan, -- Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, and Muhammad Riaz -- Social Distancing and Quarantine as COVID-19 Control Remedies / Adeel Ahmad, Muhammad Hussaan, Fatima Batool, Sahar Mumtaz, Nagina Rehman, Samina Yaqoob, and Humaira Kausar -- Face Masks and Hand Sanitizers / Shahzad Sharif, Mahnoor Zahid, Maham Saeed, Izaz Ahmad, M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Rizwan Ahmad -- Lockdown as a Strategy to Control COVID-19 / Naheed Bano, Rizwan Ahmad, Zahid Khan, and Majid Khan -- Vaccines Against COVID-19 / Majid Khan, Muhammad Faheem, Najmur Rahman, Rizwan Ahmad, M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Muhammad Riaz -- Medicinal Plants Against COVID-19 / Binish Khaliq, Naila Ali, Ahmed Akrem, M. Yasin Ashraf, Arif Malik, Arifa Tahir, and M. Zia-Ul-Haq -- COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines / Roheena Abdullah, Ayesha Toor, Hina Qaiser, Afshan Kaleem, Mehwish Iqtedar, -- Tehreema Iftikhar, Muhammad Riaz, and Dou Deqiang -- The Role of Natural Products in COVID-19 / Iqra Akhtar, Sumera Javad, Tehreema Iftikhar, Amina Tariq, Hammad Majeed, Asma Ahmad, Muhammad Arfan, and M. Zia-Ul-Haq -- Nanomedicine Against COVID-19 / Saima Zulfiqar, Zunaira Naeem, Shahzad Sharif, Ayoub Rashid Ch., M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Marius Moga -- Recent Developments in Therapies and Strategies Against COVID-19 / Misbah Hameed, M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Marius Moga -- An Overview of COVID-19 Treatment / Saffora Riaz, Farkhanda Manzoor, Dou Deqiang, and Najmur Rahman.
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