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  title info:
    title: Biofilms and Veterinary Medicine
  name:
    name part: Percival, Steven.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Knottenbelt, Derek.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Cochrane, Christine.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    edition: First.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 258 p. online resource.
  abstract: Biofilms are implicated in many common medical problems including urinary tract infections, catheter infections, middle-ear infections, dental plaque, gingivitis, and some less common but more lethal processes such as endocarditis and infections in cystic fibrosis. However, the true importance of biofilms in the overall process of disease pathogenesis has only recently been recognized. Bacterial biofilms are one of the fundamental reasons for incipient wound healing failure in that they may impair natural cutaneous wound healing and reduce topical antimicrobial efficiency in infected skin wounds. Their existence explains many of the enigmas of microbial infection and a better grasp of the process may well serve to establish a different approach to infection control and management. Biofilms and their associated complications have been found to be involved in up to 80% of all infections. A large number of studies targeted at the bacterial biofilms have been conducted, and many of them are referred to in this book, which is the first of its kind. These clinical observations emphasize the importance of biofilm formation to both superficial and systemic infections, and the inability of current antimicrobial therapies to ‘cure’ the resulting diseases even when the in vitro tests suggest that they should be fully effective. In veterinary medicine the concept of biofilms and their role in the pathogenesis of disease has lagged seriously behind that in human medicine. This is all the more extraordinary when one considers that much of the research has been carried out using veterinary species in experimental situations. The clinical features of biofilms in human medicine is certainly mimicked in the veterinary species but there is an inherent and highly regrettable indifference to the failure of antimicrobial therapy in many veterinary disease situations, and this is probably at its most retrograde in veterinary wound management. Biofilms and Veterinary Medicine is specifical…
  table of contents: Introduction to Microbiology, Zoonoses and Antibiotics -- Introduction to biofilms -- Zoonotic related infections: The role of biofilms -- Biofilms and role to infection and disease in veterinary medicine -- Role of biofilms in oral health in animals -- Evidence and significance of biofilms in chronic wounds in horses -- Osteomyelitis in the Veterinary Species -- Biofilms and implication in medical devices in animals -- Bovine Mastitis and Biofilms -- Antimicrobial and biofilm resistance.
  note: edited by Steven Percival, Derek Knottenbelt, Christine Cochrane.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Veterinary medicine
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Bacteriology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Bacteriology
  subject:
    topic: Veterinary Medicine
  classification: QR1-502
  classification: 579
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Series on Biofilms, 6
  identifier: 9783642212895
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21289-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 110805
    record change date: 20150519174557.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-21289-5