A Complete Guidebook on Biofilm Study

A Complete Guidebook on Biofilm Study has emphasized the biofilm-related issues in the present context related to research and development. For this purpose, experimental design and relevant experimental protocols for the biofilm studies have been highlighted here. In addition to that, inhibitors from natural or synthetic sources against microbial biofilm development have been addressed. This approach has been further substantiated by bioinformatics as well as nanotechnology-based reports. Both, the image processing related to biofilm study and the characters of substratum associated with biofilm development have also been included for a better understanding of the beginners in this field. Further, how biofilm helps and/or hampers in food processing and waste management system, that discussion has been considered in this book. Similarly, human benefits from biofilm and reverse of it have also been included considering host-pathogen interaction, immunity aspects, and others.

1. Biofilm: Design of experiments and relevant protocols 2. Physiology of biofilm produced by variousmicrobes 3. Genetic regulations ofmicrobial biofilm 4. Combating biofilm of ESKAPE pathogens from ancient plant-based therapy to modern nanotechnological combinations 5. Application of natural products against fungal biofilm formation 6. Application of synthetic products against pathogenic fungal biofilm development with special reference to combinational approaches 7. Metal nanoparticles against growth of microbial biofilm 8. Role of biofilm in wastemanagement system 9. Control of biofilm formation during food processing 10. Role of biofilm in host-pathogen interaction 11. Antibiotic resistance in biofilm-forming pathogenic Coliforms & the role of membrane proteins 12. Image processing of biofilms and its applications 13. Modification of material surface to regulate biofilm formation 14. Multi-species biofilms: Friends or foe to the human?