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Biofilm eradication and prevention : a pharmaceutical approach to medical device infections /
"Biofilm Eradication and Preventions presents the basics of biofilm formation on medical devices, diseases related to this formation, and approaches pharmaceutical researchers need to take to limit this problem. Split into three parts, the first deals with the development and characterization o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Color Plates
- Development and Characterization of Biofilms. Introduction and Overview of Biofilm
- Rationale for Biofilm Eradication from Modern Medical Devices
- Pathogenesis of Device-Related Nosocomial Infections
- Biofilm Resistance₆Tolerance to Conventional Antimicrobial Agents
- Analytical Techniques Useful to Study Biofilms
- Biofilm
- Related Infections in Various Human Organs (Nondevice
- Related Chronic Infections). Biofilm-Related Infections in Ophthalmology
- Biofilm-Related Infections in the Oral Cavity
- Implications of Biofilm Formation in Chronic Wounds and in Cystic Fibrosis
- Drug Delivery Carriers to Eradicate Biofilm formation on Medical Devices. Strategies for Prevention of Device-Related Nosocomial Infections
- Liposomes as Drug Delivery Carriers to Biofilms
- Polymer-Based Antimicrobial Delivery Carriers
- Index.
- (Publisher-supplied data) Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Biofilm Chapter 2. Rationale for biofilm eradication from modern medical devices Chapter 3. Pathogenesis of device-related nosocomial infections Chapter 4. Biofilm resistance/tolerance to conventional antimicrobial agents Chapter 5. Analytical techniques useful to study biofilm Chapter 6. Biofilm-related infections in ophthalmology Chapter 7. Biofilm-related infections in oral cavity Chapter 8. Implications of biofilm formation in chronic wound and in cystic fibrosis Chapter 9. Strategies for prevention of device-related nosocomial infections Chapter 10. Liposomes as drug delivery carriers to biofilms Chapter 11. Polymer-based antimicrobial delivery carriers.