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OverviewIn 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 sanitation and which we had to kill by immunization and chemical antibacterial compounds. By the time this overriding threat had been obviated, we began to examine na- ral and pathogenic ecosystems by direct methods, and we were surprised to ?nd that planktonic bacteria are comparatively rare and that most prokaryotes grow in matrix-enclosedbio?lms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Naomi Balaban , J.W. CostertonPublisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008 Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.302kg ISBN: 9783642093098ISBN 10: 3642093094 Pages: 175 Publication Date: 20 November 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsBacterial Cell-to-cell Communication (Quorum Sensing).- Detection In Vitro of Quorum-Sensing Molecules and Their Inhibitors.- Quorum-Sensing Inhibitory Compounds.- Mathematical Modeling of Quorum-Sensing Control in Biofilms.- Animal Models Commonly Used to Study Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors.- In Vivo Studies: Inhibiting Biofilm-Associated Bacterial Infections Using QSIs.- Quorum Sensing in Streptococci.- Ironing Out the Biofilm Problem:The Role of Iron in Biofilm Formation.- Clinical Wound Healing Using Signal Inhibitors.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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