Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-73853-4
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Describes the molecular mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication among bacterial cells in a biofilm, the development of antibiofilm inhibitors, like quorum-sensing inhibitors, and the use of biofilm inhibitors to prevent and treat bacterial infections in humans and other animals.
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, antibiotics, bacteremia, bacteria, bacterial infection, bacterial infections, biofilm, biofilm infection, infection, infections, molecular mechanisms, plankton, signal manipulation, infectious diseases, Proteomics