Overview
- Most up-to-date book from the pioneer in the study of biofilms
- The author's research on microbial biofilms shattered conventional wisdom in the discipline of bacterial microbiology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Biofilms (BIOFILMS, volume 1)
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About this book
This book details the widely accepted hypothesis that the majority of bacteria in virtually all ecosystems grow in matrix-enclosed biofilms. The author, who proposed this biofilm hypothesis, uses direct evidence from microscopy and from molecular techniques, presenting cogent reasons for moving beyond conventional culture methods that dominated microbiology throughout the last century. Bacteria grow predominantly in biofilms in all natural, engineered, and pathogenic ecosystems, and this book provides a solid basis for the understanding of bacterial processes in environmental, industrial, agricultural, dental and medical microbiology. Using a unique "ecological" perspective, the author explores the commensal and pathogenic colonization of human organ systems.
About the authors
J. William (Bill) Costerton directed the NSF-funded Center for Biofilm Engineering in Montana for more than a decade. In 2004, Bill was recruited by the University of Southern California to build a center for biofilms in the dental and medical areas. As one of the world’s top 100 most-cited authors in microbiology, he has published more than 600 papers in refereed journals. He has received several awards and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2005. Bill is widely regarded as the "grandfather" of biofilm microbiology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Biofilm Primer
Editors: J. William Costerton
Series Title: Springer Series on Biofilms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b136878
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-68021-5Published: 16 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08765-3Published: 20 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68022-2Published: 06 March 2007
Series ISSN: 1863-9607
Series E-ISSN: 1863-9615
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 199
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases