COVID and Pandemic Issues

The COVID-19 Pandemic
A Multidisciplinary Review of Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

Editors: Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, PhD
Muhammad Riaz, PhD
Sagheer Ahmed, PhD
Marius Alexandru Moga, PhD

The COVID-19 Pandemic

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: June 2022
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774910504
E-Book ISBN: 9781003283607
Pages: 608pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 17 color and 80 b/w illustrations

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.

CONTENTS:

Preface

PART 1: PATHOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS
1. 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

2. Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of COVID-19
Sidrah Tariq Khan and Sagheer Ahmed

3. Psychological Effects of COVID-19
Binish Khaliq, Mehvish Azam, Ahmed Akrem, M. Yasin Ashraf, Sumera Anwar, Arif Malik, Samina Yaqoob, and Hawa Ze Jaafar

4. Detection Assays and Techniques Against COVID-19
Shahzad Sharif, Maham Saeed, Javed Hussain Shah, Sajjad Hussain, Ahmad Adnan, Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, and Muhammad Riaz

PART 2: PREVENTION STRATEGIES
5. Social Distancing and Quarantine as COVID-19 Control Remedy
Adeel Ahmad, Muhammad Hussaan, Fatima Batool, Sahar Mumtaz, Nagina Rehman, Samina Yaqoob, and Humaira Kausar

6. Face Masks and Hand Sanitizers
Shahzad Sharif, Mahnoor Zahid, Maham Saeed, Izaz Ahmad, M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Rizwan Ahmad

7. Lockdown as a Strategy to Control COVID-19
Naheed Bano, Rizwan Ahmad, Zahid Khan, and Majid Khan

8. Vaccines Against COVID-19
Majid Khan, Muhammad Faheem, Najmur Rahman, Rizwan Ahmad, M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Muhammad Riaz

PART 3: TREATMENT
9. Medicinal Plants Against COVID-19
Binish Khaliq, Naila Ali, Ahmed Akrem, M. Yasin Ashraf, Arif Malik, Arifa Tahir, and M. Zia-Ul-Haq

10. COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines
Roheena Abdullah, Ayesha Toor, Hina Qaiser, Afshan Kaleem, Mehwish Iqtedar, Tehreema Iftikhar, Muhammad Riaz, and Dou Deqiang

11. 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

12. Nanomedicine Against COVID-19
Saima Zulfiqar, Zunaira Naeem, Shahzad Sharif, Ayoub Rashid Ch., M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Marius Moga

13. Recent Developments in Therapies and Strategies against COVID-19
Misbah Hameed, M. Zia-Ul-Haq, and Marius Moga

14. An Overview of COVID-19 Treatment
Saffora Riaz, Farkhanda Manzoor, Dou Deqiang, and Najmur Rahman


Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia

Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, PhD, is a lab technologist, researcher, and writer as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Rabegh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ahmedah has published one book with Springer and many articles in journals indexed in the ISI Web of Science. She graduated from King Abdulaziz University (KAU) with a BS in Medical Laboratory Technology and earned an MSc in Pathological Science at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, University of Bradford, United Kingdom.

Muhammad Riaz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Pakistan

Muhammad Riaz, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Pakistan. He has authored or co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications in renowned journals at the national and international level and two books: Anthocyanins and Human Health: Biomolecular and Therapeutic Aspects (2016) and Carotenoids: Structure and Function in the Human Body (2021) for Springer. He received his PhD in Pharmacognosy from the University of Karachi, Pakistan, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Prof. Dou Deqiang Lab, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. During his PhD, Dr. Riaz worked in Prof. Michael Heinrich Labs, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, under the six-month International Research Support Initiative Program of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

Sagheer Ahmed, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, Shifa College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad

Sagheer Ahmed, PhD, is Professor of Pharmacology at Shifa College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. His areas of research interest include pharmacogenetics, cardiovascular, neuropharmacology, and COVID-19. He has contributed to nine patents and over 50 research publications. Dr. Ahmed loves teaching both undergraduate and graduate students and has experience in various problem-based learning approaches, especially the Harvard style and Maastricht style. He has over 20 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience to motivate his students to prepare them for the post-COVID-19 world and take on significant challenges in life.

Marius Alexandru Moga, PhD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine of Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Marius Alexandru Moga, MD, PhD, born in Brasov, Romania, graduated in 1989 from the Faculty of General Medicine from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and he became a Specialist (Registrar) in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1994. As a Senior Doctor/Consultant in Ob-Gyn (1999), he worked at the same Clinical Hospital of Ob-Gyn, I.A.Sbarcea, of Brasov, Romania, where he was nominated in 2007 to run the 4th Clinical Department of Ob-Gyn (32 beds). He obtained certificates of specialization issued by the Ministry of Health in Romania and proved special competency in some ob-gyn subfields, such as ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology, onco-gynecology, maternal-fetal medicine, colposcopy and cito-diagnosis, laparoscopic surgery, family planning, contraception, and health management. In 2005 he became Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of Brasov, and in 2014 he reached the full professor position at the same Faculty of Medicine. He is currently Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine of Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, where he was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for three terms. Habilitated in 2017, he has eight PhD students under his supervision, with two PhD graduates. He has a Hirsch citation score of 13 and 60 ISI papers with IF (Web of Science-Clarivate Analytics). He has published over 230 medical papers in IDB journals. and he has presented more than 300 papers at national and international conferences. He is also the author or co-author of 11 medical books and 21 book chapters in national and international publications. He has handled many research and educational projects and was the principal investigator of 14 clinical studies as well. He was nominated in 2010 as an International Expert in Environmental Medicine. Dr. Moga founded a master academic Programme in Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Brasov, Romania.




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