Main description:

This book highlights treatment strategies for bacterial biofilms in connection with a variety of human diseases. In particular, it reviews bacterial biofilm formation and its mechanism.

Topics covered include biofilms in human health, the role of biofilms in mediating human diseases, and methods for testing bacterial biofilms. Further sections concentrate on biofilm-mediated diseases in different parts of the human gastrointestinal tract, while therapeutic strategies for biofilm control and natural agents that disrupt bacterial biofilms are also covered.

Readers will also find the latest advances in probiotics and biofilms, as well as the use of probiotics to counteract biofilm-associated infections. Biofilms and antimicrobial resistance are discussed. Subsequent chapters address the management of inflammatory bowel disease via probiotics biofilms, as well as the role of probiotics bacteria in the treatment of human diseases associated with bacterial biofilms.

The book is chiefly intended for clinicians/scientists in the fields of medical microbiology, applied microbiology, biochemistry, and biotechnology.

Contents:

1. An Introduction to Microbial Biofilm

Sunil Kumar, Ankita Srivastava, Saumya Rastogi

2. Biofilms: The Good and the Bad

Suresh Kumar Yadav, Somali Sanyal

3. Biofilms in Human Health

Surojeet Das, Shivani Singh, Monica Steffi Matchado, Aashna Srivastava, Akash Bajpai

4. The Role of Biofilms in Originating, Mediating, and Proliferating Infectious Diseases

Amresh Kumar Singh, Vivek Gaur, Anand Kumar Maurya

5. Modern Methods in Microscopy for the Assessment of Biofilms

Manodeep Sen and Pushpa Yadav

6. Molecular Methods for the Assessment of Microbial Biofilms

Amresh Kumar Singh and Vivek Gaur

7. Biofilm Mediated Dental Diseases

Seema Dubey, Vikash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Shirish Dubey

8. Biofilm Mediated Diseases of the Eye

Pragati Garg, Rajiv Garg, and Priyanka Raj

9. Biofilm mediated Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat

M. Ravi Sankar, Arulalan M, Amit K Keshri

10. Biofilm mediated Diseases of Heart and Lungs

Surojeet Das

11. Role of Biofilms in Medical Devices and Implants

Ankita Srivastava, Niharika Chandra, Sunil Kumar

12. Biofilm Mediated Gastrointestinal Diseases

Dr. Satish Nayak

13. Biofilm Mediated Urinary Tract Diseases

Jyotsna Agarwal , Shruti Radera

14. Biofilm Mediated Skin Infections

Amresh Kumar Singh,Vivek Gaur, Santosh Kumar Singh

15. Natural Agents that Disrupt Bacterial Biofilm

Rolee Sharma, Preeti Bajpai, Uzma Sayyed, Iffat Zareen Ahmad

16. Probiotics and Biofilm

Kushan Sengupta and PiramaayagamParamasivan

17. Probiotics to Counteract Biofilm-Associated Infections

Suchitra Kumari Panigrahy, Awanish Kumar

18. Biofilms and Antimicrobial Resistance

Vineeta Mittal

19. Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Probiotics Biofilm

Alok Kumar, Swasti Tiwari, Amit Goel