Microbial Biofilms (Hardcover, 2)

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 New Technologies for Studying Biofilms

2 Fungal Biofilms: In Vivo Models for Discovery of Anti-Biofilm Drugs

3 Biofilm Development

4 Division of Labor in Biofilms: the Ecology of Cell Differentiation

5 Candida albicans Biofilm Development and Its Genetic Control

6 Candida Biofilms: Development, Architecture, and Resistance

7 Biofilm Formation by Cryptococcus neoformans

8 Aspergillus Biofilm In Vitro and In Vivo

9 Adhesins Involved in Attachment to Abiotic Surfaces by Gram-Negative Bacteria

10 Biofilm Matrix Proteins

11 Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides in Biofilm Formation and Function

12 The Biology of the Escherichia coli Extracellular Matrix

13 Antimicrobial Tolerance in Biofilms

14 How Biofilms Evade Host Defenses

15 c-di-GMP and its Effects on Biofilm Formation and Dispersion: a Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Review

16 Mechanisms of Competition in Biofilm Communities

17 Dispersal from Microbial Biofilms

18 Chemical Biology Strategies for Biofilm Control

19 From Biology to Drug Development: New Approaches to Combat the Threat of Fungal Biofilms

Index