TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Biofilm Primer
T2  - Springer Series on Biofilms,
SN  - 9783540680222
AV  - QR1-502 
U1  - 579 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Microbiology
KW  - Emerging infectious diseases
KW  - Microbial ecology
KW  - Bacteriology
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Microbial Ecology
KW  - Medical Microbiology
KW  - Infectious Diseases
N1  - Direct Observations -- Control of all Biofilm Strategies and Behaviours -- The Microbiology of the Healthy Human Body -- Replacement of Acute Planctonic by Chronic Biofilm Diseases -- Toward a Unified Biofilm Theory -- References; ZDB-2-SBL
N2  - This book details the widely accepted hypothesis that the majority of bacteria in virtually all ecosystems grow in matrix-enclosed biofilms. The author, who proposed this biofilm hypothesis, uses direct evidence from microscopy and from molecular techniques, presenting cogent reasons for moving beyond conventional culture methods that dominated microbiology throughout the last century. Bacteria grow predominantly in biofilms in all natural, engineered, and pathogenic ecosystems, and this book provides a solid basis for the understanding of bacterial processes in environmental, industrial, agricultural, dental and medical microbiology. Using a unique "ecological" perspective, the author explores the commensal and pathogenic colonization of human organ systems
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b136878
ER  -