Principles And Practice Of Disinfection, Preservation And Sterilization 5E

Fraise (medical microbiology, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, U. Hospitals Birmingham, UK), Maillard, and Sattar bring together 23 chapters from microbiologists and others from Europe, North America, and Jordan detailing the principles and practices of disinfection, preservation, and sterilization. They discuss types of microbicidal and microbistatic agents, factors affecting microbicides, their mechanisms of action, biofilm recalcitrance, fungicidal activity of microbicides, and other principles, and the evaluation of antimicrobial efficacy and the efficacy of professional healthcare antiseptics, regulation of microbicides, sterilization processes, preservation of medicine and cosmetics, sterility assurance, antimicrobial surfaces and devices, emerging natural technologies, and control of infectious bioagents. This edition has mostly new chapters and updates and revises others. It has new chapters on bioterrorism and community healthcare and microbicide regulations in the European Union, the US, and Canada, and new and updated material on microbial resistance to microbicides and new and emerging technologies, with a focus on problems in hospitals, dentistry, and pharmaceutical practice. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Adam Fraise, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, UK

Jean-Yves Maillard, Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

Syed Sattar, Centre for Research in Environmental Microbiology, University of Ottawa, Canada