Overview
- Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols
- Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
- Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts
Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1147)
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Table of contents (25 protocols)
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Front Matter
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Investigations on Biofilms in Health and Disease
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Investigations on Anti-biofilm Compounds and Strategies
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About this book
The discovery that most of the chronic infections in humans, including the oral, lung, vaginal and foreign body-associated infections, are biofilm-based, has prompted the need to design new and properly focused preventive and therapeutic strategies for these diseases. Microbial Biofilms: Methods and Protocols provides a detailed description of the currently available methods and protocols to investigate bacterial and fungal biofilms, exhaustively illustrated and critically annotated in 25 chapters written by authors well known for their experience in the respective fields. The book has joined together microbiologists and specialists in infectious diseases, hygiene and public health involved in exploring different aspects of microbial biofilms as well as in designing new methods and/or developing innovative laboratory protocols. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and easily accessible, Microbial Biofilms: Methods and Protocols presents readers with the most established and validated experimental procedures to investigate microbial biofilms.
Reviews
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“This book … is organized in three parts: Investigations on biofilms in health and disease, Investigations on anti-biofilm compounds and strategies, and Investigations on biofilms in the environment and manufacturing plants. … this book should be read by students, researchers, and teachers working in the field of biofilms, as well as scientists working in Microbiology, Ecology or Medicine.” (Ioan I. Ardelean, Bulletin of Micro and Nanoelectrotechnologies, Vol. 5 (3-4), December, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Biofilms
Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols
Editors: Gianfranco Donelli
Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0467-9
Publisher: Humana New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Protocols
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0466-2Published: 25 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4676-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0467-9Published: 24 March 2014
Series ISSN: 1064-3745
Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Bacteriology