Biofilms: Recent Advances in their Study and ControlL V Evans CRC Press, 2003 M09 2 - 490 páginas Biofilms affect the lives of all of us, growing as they do for example on our teeth (as plaque), on catheters and medical implants in our bodies, on our boats and ships, in food processing environments, and in drinking and industrial water treatment systems. They are highly complex biological communities whose detailed structure and functioning is only gradually being unravelled, with the development of increasingly sophisticated technology for their study. Biofilms almost always have a negative impact on human affairs (flocs in sewage treatment plants are a major exception) and a lot of research is being carried out to gain a better understanding of them, so that we will be in a better position to control them. This volume, with contributions by international experts from widely diverse areas of this field, presents a state-of-the-art picture of where we are at present in terms of our knowledge of biofilms, the techniques being used to study them, and possible strategies for controlling their growth more successfully. It should provide a valuable reference source for information on biofilms and their control for many years to come. |
Contenido
1 Structure and Function of Biofilms | 1 |
2 Physicochemical Properties of Biofilms | 19 |
3 Structural Determinants in Biofilm Formation | 35 |
4 Microscopy Methods for Studying Biofilms | 51 |
5 Gene Expression of Cells Attached to Surfaces | 72 |
6 Plasmid Transfer between Bacteria in Biofilms | 83 |
7 Bacterial Interactions with Marine Fouling Organisms | 104 |
8 Biofilm Infections on Implant Surfaces | 121 |
14 The Role of Biosurfactants in Affecting Initial Microbial Adhesion Mechanisms | 246 |
15 Monitoring Biofilms by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy | 262 |
16 Surface Catalysed Hygiene and Biofilm Control | 289 |
their Implications Study and Control | 301 |
18 Biofilms in Drinking Water Treatment and Distribution | 322 |
Approaching old problem in New Ways | 345 |
20 Environmentally Acceptable Control of Miscrobial Biofilms | 374 |
21 ards Environmentally Acceptable Control of Biofilms in the pulp and paper industry | 395 |
9 Animal Models for the Study of Bacterial Biofilms | 138 |
10 Antimicrobial Resistance of Biofilms | 154 |
Impact of Surface Characteristics | 173 |
12 Algal Biofilms | 196 |
13 Food Industry Biofilms | 219 |
22 Study of Biofouling Control with Fluorescent probes and image analysis | 415 |
23 Microbially Influenced Corrosion in the Context Metal Nicrobe Interactions | 433 |
Flocs and Microbial Communities | 450 |
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