Chapter 1. Quest for alternatives to antibiotics - an urgent need of the 21st century
Chapter 2. Phytochemicals as antibacterial agents: current status and future perspective
Chapter 3. Quorum quenching enzymes: a potent alternative to conventional antibiotics
Chapter 4. Antibodies as antibacterial molecules: the new era of antibody-mediated immunity
Chapter 5. Phage therapy: genomics to applications and future prospects
Chapter 6. Alternatives to antibiotics in animal farming
Chapter 7. Metal catalysed synthesis of blactam antibiotics
Chapter 8. Upgrading the antibiotic arsenal against gram-positive bacteria: chemical modifications of vancomycin
Chapter 9. Heterocyclic scaffolds in novel synthetic antibacterial agents
Chapter 10. Antibacterial metal-organic frameworks
Chapter 11. Cationic amphiphilic molecules as bactericidal agents
Chapter 12. Polymeric nanoparticles and nanocomposites as antibacterial agents
Chapter 13. Metallic nanoparticles and their composites as alternative antibacterial therapeutics
Chapter 14. Carbon nanoparticles as the next generation antimicrobial agents
Chapter 15. Dendrimeric entities as chemical alternatives towards antimicrobial therapy
Chapter 16. Ionic liquids, ionic liquid nanoparticles and nanocomposites-the future antibiotics
Chapter 17. Prebiotic immunomodulators to enhance mucosal immunity and to reduce mass use of antibiotics
Chapter 18. Use of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics as an alternative to antibiotics
Chapter 19. The implication of antimicrobial peptides against bacteria and their clinical aspects
Chapter 20. development of probiotics for helocibacter pylori infection management
Chapter 21. Implications of probiotics in management of bacterial infections
Chapter 22. Nano carriers for the molecular targeting of pathogenic bacteria.