Medical Biofilms: Detection, Prevention and Control

Voorkant
Jana Jass, Susanne Surman, James Walker
John Wiley & Sons, 2 apr 2003 - 320 pagina's

Biofilms are formed by microorganisms growing on surfaces and comprise a series of microcolonies interspersed with spaces through which fluids and other microorganisms move. In medicine, the primary problems are biofilms associated with implants: infections are increasingly difficult to treat with traditional antibiotics and removal of the implant often becomes essential, frequently leading to higher morbidity and mortality.

  • This will be the first book dedicated to medical biofilms.
  • It will cover much recent information on the problems of biofilms, how to detect them and how to control their presence.

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Inhoudsopgave

MICROBIAL BIOFILMS IN MEDICINE
1
Biofilm formation
9
Mixedculture biofilms
17
2
25
1
31
on Medical Implants
51
Conventional microbiological diagnosis and detection
57
3
94
233
147
57
171
79
247
8888
253
BIOFILMS PAST PRESENT AND FUTURENEW
255
999
275
Index
279
102
281

52
121

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 276 - Greenberg, EP (1994). Structure of the autoinducer required for expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 197-201.
Pagina 276 - Singh, PK, Schaefer, AL, Parsek, MR, Moninger, TO, Welsh, MJ, and Greenberg, EP (2000) Quorum-sensing signals indicate that cystic fibrosis lungs are infected with bacterial biofilms.

Over de auteur (2003)

Jana Jass is the editor of Medical Biofilms: Detection, Prevention and Control, published by Wiley.

Susanne Surman is the editor of Medical Biofilms: Detection, Prevention and Control, published by Wiley.

James Walker is the editor of Medical Biofilms: Detection, Prevention and Control, published by Wiley.

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