Nanotechnology in Skin, Soft Tissue, and Bone Infections

The main goal of the present book is to deal with the role of nanobiotechnology in skin, soft tissue and bone infections since it is difficult to treat the infections due to the development of resistance in them against existing antibiotics. The present interdisciplinary book is very useful for a diverse group of readers including nanotechnologists, medical microbiologists, dermatologists, osteologists, biotechnologists, bioengineers. Nanotechnology in Skin, Soft-Tissue, and Bone Infections is divided into four sections: Section I- includes role of nanotechnology in skin infections such as atopic dermatitis, and nanomaterials for combating infections caused by bacteria and fungi. Section II- incorporates how nanotechnology can be used for soft-tissue infections such as diabetic foot ulcer and other wound infections; Section III- discusses about the nanomaterials in artificial scaffolds bone engineering and bone infections caused by bacteria and fungi; and also  about the toxicity issues generated by the nanomaterials in general and nanoparticles in particular.
The readers will be immensely enriched by the knowledge of new and emerging nanobiotechnologies in a variety of platforms.

Mahendra Rai is a Senior Professor and UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University at Amravati, Maharashtra, India. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Bioenergetics, University of Geneva, Switzerland at the Department of Plant Protection of Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary. He visited Department of Chemical Biology, University of Campinas, Brazil under Indo-Brazil Research Programme (DST-CNPq collaboration). He was visiting Professor in Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. and visiting scientist in State University of Campinas, Brazil. He was also visiting professor in Ostrava, Czech Republic and  in National University of Rosario, Argentina. His area of expertise includes microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. His present research interest include application of nanobiotechnology in medicine with particular reference to development of nanoantimicrobials. He has published more than 400 research papers in national and international journals. In addition, he has edited/authored more than 50  books and 6 patents.