The book covers antimicrobial resistance in ocular diseases, including the microbiology of the ocular surface, the history and origin of antimicrobials, methods to detect antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial resistance genes, and the impact of antimicrobial resistance on a variety of ocular diseases. The inclusion of chapters covers bacterial keratitis, fungal keratitis, viral keratitis, acanthamoeba keratitis, endophthalmitis, dry eye disease, post fever retinitis, and uveitis including management and prevention of antimicrobial resistance.

Focusses on various ocular diseases and their association with antimicrobial resistance
Includes data relevant to drug industry to develop drugs for specific ophthalmic use
Illustrates ocular surface microbiome under various diseased conditions
Highlights the microbes associated with the conjunctiva and cornea of the human eye
Enumerates the changes in the abundance and diversity of the AMR microorganisms in the diseased eye
This book is aimed at professionals and researchers in ophthalmology, microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, and public health.

Dr Shivaji's research interests include conservation of endangered animals, biodiversity of Antarctica, Arctic, Himalayas etc., and microbiome of the gut and eye with special reference to ocular diseases. The Government of India has conferred the prestigious National Award for research in Cryosphere and Polar sciences and the Antarctic Award for excellence in the field of Biological Sciences. He was a visiting scientist at Max-Planck Institute for Biophysikalische Chemie and Institute for Medicine, Germany and National Institute of Basic Biology, Japan. He is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India; Indian Academy of Sciences, India, and the Zoological Society of London, 2002.


Chapter 1: Microbes of the Ocular Surface of the Human

Chapter 2: Antimicrobial Resistance: History and Origin of Antimicrobials, Targets of Action and Factors Contributing to Antimicrobial Resistance

Chapter 3: Methods to detect antimicrobial resistance in human ocular samples

Chapter 4: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: bacterial keratitis

Chapter 5: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: fungal keratitis

Chapter 6: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: viral keratitis

Chapter 7: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: Acanthamoeba keratitis

Chapter 8: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: Dry Eye Disease

Chapter 9: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: endophthalmitis

Chapter 10: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: Scleriltis

Chapter 11: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: uveitis

Chapter 12: Antimicrobial resistance in the diseased human eye: postfever retinitis

Chapter 13: Antimicrobial Resistance of the Diseased human Eye: Conjunctivitis

Chapter 14: Antimicrobial Resistance of the Diseased human Eye: Dacryocystitis

Chapter 15: Antimicrobial Resistance of the Human Eye: A way forward

Index