A01=Tamilvanan Shunmugaperumal
Author_Tamilvanan Shunmugaperumal
biofilm eradication
biofilm prevention
biofilm-mediated chronic infetions
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Category=MQW
Category=TDCW
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eq_tech-engineering
lipid-based drug delivery
medical device infections
polymer-based drug delivery
Product details
- ISBN 9780470479964
- Weight: 798g
- Dimensions: 161 x 243mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2010
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Biofilm Eradication and Preventions presents the basics of biofilm formation on medical devices, diseases related to this formation, and approaches pharmaceutical researchers need to take to limit this problem. Split into three parts, the first deals with the development and characterization of biofilm on the surfaces of implanted or inserted medical devices. Questions as to why biofilms form over medical device surfaces and what triggers biofilm formation are addressed. In the second section, the author discusses biofilm-mediated chronic infections occurred in various organs (eyes, mouth, wounds) and pharmaceutical and drug delivery knowledge gained from research in these area. The third part explores pharmaceutical approaches like lipid-and polymer-based drug delivery carriers for eradicating biofilm on device-related infections. In addition, this section also explores the topic of novel small molecule (like iron and its complexes/metal chelators) and a quorum-sensing inhibitors to control medical biofilm formation.
TAMILVANAN SHUNMUGAPERUMAL, PhD, works in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His current research seeks to exploit the potential of lipid- and polymer-based drug delivery carriers to eradicate infectious biofilm formation associated with both medical devices and human organs.
