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Book Detail
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Understanding Microbial Biofilms:
Fundamentals to Applications
Das, Surajit
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Doody’s Core Title Rating: 2.2 [Microbiology] Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Synopsis:
Understanding Microbial Biofilms: Fundamentals to Applications focuses on the microbial biofilms of different environments. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental aspects of microbial biofilms, their existence in nature, their significance, and the different clinical and environmental problems associated with them. The book covers both the fundamentals and applications of microbial biofilms, with chapters on the introduction to the microbial community and its architecture, physiology, mechanisms and imaging of biofilms in nature and fungal, algal, and bacillus biofilm control. In addition, the book highlights the molecular and biochemical aspects of bacterial biofilms, providing a compilation of chapters on the bacterial community and communication from different environments. Finally, the book covers recent advancements in various aspects of microbial biofilms including the chapters on their biotechnological applications. All the chapters are written by experts who have been working on different aspects of microbial biofilms.
- Illustrates fundamental aspects surrounding microbial biofilms, along with recent advancements
- Provides an overview on the principal aspects of biofilms, i.e., formation, regulation, distribution, control, and application
- Updates on the progress on biofilm regulation through ‘omics’
- Serves as a classical manual for all researchers, academicians, and students who would want complete insights on biofilms in a single resource
- Covers all recent advancements and amendments on microbial biofilms
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