Publisher's Synopsis
This volume highlights the state-of-the-art in microbial/parasite control and containment and discusses ways and means of avoiding development of drug resistance. The strategies to combat the nightmare of microbial aggression and resistance and to overcome multiple drug resistance when it emerged in microbial organisms or in cancer cells exposed to chemotherapy are discussed. The topics discussed are: * Malaria * Tuberculosis * Cholera * Leprosy * Diarrhoral Diseases * Nosocomial Diseases * Plague * Drug Resistance and Cancer