Biofilm-based Healthcare-associated Infections (eBook)

1. Biofilm Formation by Clinical Isolates and its Relevance to Clinical Infections; Kevin S. Akers, Anthony P. Cardile, Joseph C. Wenke, Clinton K Murray2. Biofilm-based implant infections in orthopaedics; Carla Renata Arciola, Davide Campoccia, Garth D. Ehrlich, Lucio Montanaro3. Clinical and Microbiological Aspects of Biofilm-Associated Surgical Site Infections; Charles E. Edmiston, Jr., Andrew J. McBain, Christopher Roberts and David Leaper4. Peri-implant infections of oral biofilm etiology; Georgios N. Belibasakis, Georgios Charalampakis, Nagihan Bostanci, Bernd Stadlinger5. Microbiological diversity of peri-implantitis biofilms; Marcelo Faveri, Luciene Cristina Figueiredo, Jamil Awad Shibli, Juliana Pérez-Chaparro McCulloch, Magda Feres6. Anaerobes in biofilm-based healthcare-associated infections; Claudia Vuotto and Gianfranco Donelli7. Microbial biofilm development on neonatal enteral feeding tubes; Noha Juma and Stephen J. Forsythe8. Voice prostheses, microbial colonization and biofilm formation; Matthias Leonhard and Berit Schneider-Stickler9. Microbial composition and antibiotic resistance of biofilms recovered from endotracheal tubes of mechanically ventilated patients; Ilse Vandecandelaere, Tom Coenye10. Biofilm and Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections; Ammar Yousif, Mohamed A. Jamal, Issam Raad