Overview
This will be the first book in this area to be devoted truly to diseases of biofilm infections.
Edited volume to include chapters by worldwide researchers
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
About this book
This book will cover both the evidence for biofilms in many chronic bacterial infections as well as the problems facing these infections such as diagnostics and treatment regimes. A still increasing interest and emphasis on the sessile bacterial lifestyle biofilms has been seen since it was realized that that less than 0.1% of the total microbial biomass lives in the planktonic mode of growth. The term was coined in 1978 by Costerton et al. who defined the term biofilm for the first time.In 1993 the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recognised that the biofilmmode of growth was relevant to microbiology. Lately many articles have been published on the clinical implications of bacterial biofilms. Both original articles and reviews concerning the biofilm problem are available.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter Oestrup Jensen, Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Claus Moser, Ph.D., Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Hoeby, Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biofilm Infections
Editors: Thomas Bjarnsholt, Peter Østrup Jensen, Claus Moser, Niels Høiby
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6084-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6083-2Published: 26 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8228-5Published: 11 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6084-9Published: 23 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 314
Topics: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Cell Biology