Microbial biofilms / editors, Mahmoud Ghannoum, Matthew Parsek, Marvin Whiteley, Pranab K. Mukherjee. -- 2nd ed. -- Washington D.C. : ASM Press, c2015. – (58.65 /M626b /2nd ed.)

Contents

Contributors  vii

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments  xv

1  New Technologies for Studying Biofilms  1

2  Fungal Biofilms: In Vivo Models for Discovery of Anti-Biofilm Drugs

3  Biofilm Development  51

4  Division of Labor in Biofilms: the Ecology of Cell Differentiation  67

5  Candida albicans Biofilm Development and Its Genetic Control  99

6  Candida Biofilms: Development, Architecture, and Resistance  115

7  Biofilm Formation by Cryptococcus neoformans  135

8  Aspergillus Biofilm In Vitro and In Vivo  149

9  Adhesins Involved in Attachment to Abiotic Surfaces by Gram-Negative Bacteria

10  Biofilm Matrix Proteins  201

11  Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides in Biofilm Formation and Function  223

12  The Biology of the Escherichia coli Extracellular Matrix  249

13  Antimicrobial Tolerance in Biofilms  269

14  How Biofilms Evade Host Defenses  287

15  c-di-GMP and its Effects on Biofilm Formation and Dispersion: a Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Review  301

16  Mechanisms of Competition in Biofilm Communities  319

17  Dispersal from Microbial Biofilms  343

18  Chemical Biology Strategies for Biofilm Control  363

19  From Biology to Drug Development: New Approaches to Combat the Threat of Fungal Biofilms  373

Index  389