Meet the editor

Dr. Yogendra Shah is a consultant microbiologist/virologist, senior research microbiologist, and lecturer at Seti Provincial Hospital, COVID-19 PCR laboratory, National Zoonoses and Food Hygiene Research Center, and Kathmandu College of Science and Technology, Nepal. He obtained a Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine (Bacteriology) from the Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2017. His

research focuses on better understanding the molecular epidemiological features/ transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and zoonotic infectious diseases in Nepal by employing molecular techniques like ELISA, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), and DNA sequencing. He was awarded the Young Science and Technology Award from the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in 2019. His research interests include infectious diseases, zoonotic infectious diseases, and vector-borne diseases. He has published more than thirty-five research articles in peer-reviewed journals and twelve books.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

until 2020

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

and Wildlife in Poland

*by Yogendra Shah*

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Drug Resistant TB and Challenges in Drug Discovery **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 55**

Latent Tuberculosis Infection **63**

**Chapter 5 65**

Molecular Characterization MTB **79**

**Chapter 6 81**

Genealogy of Resistant Tuberculosis in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latent Tuberculous Infection: Influence on Patient's Quality of Life

Molecular Characterization of *Mycobacterium* spp. Isolated from Cattle

*by Anna Didkowska, Monika Krajewska-Wędzina, Blanka Orłowska, Monika Kozińska, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć and Krzysztof Anusz*

Introductory Chapter: Plan to Prevent and Combat against the

Study of Various Chemically and Structurally Diverse Currently Clinically Used and Recently Developed Antimycobacterial Drugs

*by Onix J. Cantres-Fonseca and Francisco Del Olmo-Arroyo*

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis/Zoonotic Tuberculosis

Challenges in Drug Discovery against Tuberculosis

*by Manish Dwivedi and Priya Giri*

*by Saad Alghamdi and Mohammad Asif*

*by Dinara Namazovna Adjablaeva*
