书目名称 | Control of Biofilm Infections by Signal Manipulation |
编辑 | Naomi Balaban |
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概述 | Provides novel approaches and solutions to biofilm infections that are largly untreatable by using conventional approaches and antibiotics.Includes supplementary material: |
丛书名称 | Springer Series on Biofilms |
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描述 | In the well-watered groves of academe, most of us are content to gather worshipful students and technicians in a shady nook to contemplate the eternal verities and to plan extravagant feasts to celebrate our contributions to “knowledge” and to the gradual improvement of the human condition. As one convocation follows another, and as our funding agencies pump billions of dollars into incremental research that ?lls every possible pigeon-hole in which a gene makes a protein, a small number of intellectual athletes seize a pivotal concept and plunge into the real world. It is this small band of nimble and impossibly brave intellectual halfbackswho win gamesin the real world, and this book is the result of the drive and intellectual athleticism of its editor and several of her contributors. Bacteria affect humans more than any other life forms with which we share the blue planet, but our understandingof these invisible companionshas developed in a staggering pattern, crippled by our panic and consequent shifts of emphasis. When our race was threatened by epidemic diseases, we visualized bacteria as swarms of potentially lethal planktoniccells from which we must remain isolated by sanita |
出版日期 | Book 2008 |
关键词 | antibiotics; bacteremia; bacteria; bacterial infection; bacterial infections; biofilm; biofilm infection; i |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73853-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-09309-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-540-73853-4Series ISSN 1863-9607 Series E-ISSN 1863-9615 |
issn_series | 1863-9607 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 |