Hanadi Talal Ahmedah - The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multidisciplinary Review of Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

A Multidisciplinary Review of Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

A Multidisciplinary Review of Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

Edited by

Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, PhD

Muhammad Riaz, PhD

Sagheer Ahmed, PhD

Marius Alexandru Moga, PhD

First edition published 2023

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Title: The COVID-19 pandemic : a multidisciplinary review of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment / edited by Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, PhD, Muhammad Riaz, PhD, Sagheer Ahmed, PhD, Marius Alexandru Moga, PhD.

Names: Ahmedah, Hanadi Talal editor. | Riaz, Muhammad (Professor of pharmacy), editor. | Ahmed, Sagheer, editor. | Moga, Marius Alexandru, editor.

Description: First edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2022014074X | Canadiana (ebook) 20220140812 | ISBN 9781774910504 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781774910511 (softcover) | ISBN 9781003283607 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: COVID-19 (Disease) | LCSH: COVID-19 (Disease)Diagnosis. | LCSH: COVID-19 (Disease) Prevention. | LCSH: COVID-19 (Disease)Treatment.

Classification: LCC RA644.C67 C68 2022 | DDC 614.5/92414dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ahmedah, Hanadi Talal, editor. | Riaz, Muhammad (Professor of pharmacy) editor. | Ahmad, Sagheer, editor. | Moga, Marius Alexandru, editor.

Title: The COVID-19 pandemic : a multidisciplinary review of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment / edited by Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga.

Description: First edition. | Palm Bay, FL : Apple Academic Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: 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.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022000100 (print) | LCCN 2022000101 (ebook) | ISBN 9781774910504 (hbk) | ISBN 9781774910511 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003283607 (ebk)

Subjects: MESH: COVID-19 | Pandemics

Classification: LCC RA644.C67 (print) | LCC RA644.C67 (ebook) | NLM WC 506 | DDC 616.2/414--dc23/eng/20220110

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000100

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000101

ISBN: 978-1-77491-050-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-77491-051-1 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-00328-360-7 (ebk)

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 an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, 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 an 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.