1. An Introduction to Microbial Biofilm
Sunil Kumar, Ankita Srivastava, Saumya Rastogi
2. Biofilms: The Good and the Bad
Suresh Kumar Yadav, Somali Sanyal
3. Biofilms in Human Health Surojeet Das, Shivani Singh, Monica Steffi Matchado, Aashna Srivastava, Akash Bajpai 4. The Role of Biofilms in Originating, Mediating, and Proliferating Infectious Diseases
Amresh Kumar Singh, Vivek Gaur, Anand Kumar Maurya
5. Modern Methods in Microscopy for the Assessment of Biofilms Manodeep Sen and Pushpa Yadav 6. Molecular Methods for the Assessment of Microbial Biofilms
Amresh Kumar Singh and Vivek Gaur
7. Biofilm Mediated Dental Diseases
Seema Dubey, Vikash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Shirish Dubey
8. Biofilm Mediated Diseases of the Eye
Pragati Garg, Rajiv Garg, and Priyanka Raj
9. Biofilm mediated Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat
M. Ravi Sankar, Arulalan M, Amit K Keshri
10. Biofilm mediated Diseases of Heart and Lungs
Surojeet Das
11. Role of Biofilms in Medical Devices and Implants
Ankita Srivastava, Niharika Chandra, Sunil Kumar
12. Biofilm Mediated Gastrointestinal Diseases
Dr. Satish Nayak
13. Biofilm Mediated Urinary Tract Diseases
Jyotsna Agarwal, Shruti Radera
14. Biofilm Mediated Skin Infections
Amresh Kumar Singh, Vivek Gaur, Santosh Kumar Singh
15. Natural Agents that Disrupt Bacterial Biofilm
Rolee Sharma, Preeti Bajpai, Uzma Sayyed, Iffat Zareen Ahmad
16. Probiotics and Biofilm
Kushan Sengupta and PiramaayagamParamasivan
17. Probiotics to Counteract Biofilm-Associated Infections Suchitra Kumari Panigrahy, Awanish Kumar 18. Biofilms and Antimicrobial Resistance
Vineeta Mittal
19. Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Probiotics Biofilm
Alok Kumar, Swasti Tiwari, Amit Goel
About the Author: Dr. Sunil Kumar received his Ph.D. in Medical Biotechnology from SGPGIMS, India. He is currently an Associate Professor of Biotechnology at the SRMU, India. He has published more than 30 original research articles and 10 book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of five journals.
Niharika Chandra holds an M. Tech. in Biotechnology from the IIT Guwahati and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the area of biomedical sciences at the SRMU. She has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the IIT Guwahati. At present, she is an Assistant Professor at the SRMU. She has nine research articles and three book chapters to her credit.
Leena Singh is a Postgraduate in Management and is currently involved in providing life-skills and English training to students at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University (SRMU). She is also pursuing her Ph.D. in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Meteorology, COMSATS University Islamabad Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Hashmi's research chiefly focuses on the bioremediation of contaminated soil, and on cell toxicology. He has edited three books with Springer on hot issues (Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soils, Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils, and Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment), which have since been used at innumerable colleges, universities, and research institutions around the globe.
Dr. Ajit Varma received his Ph.D. from Allahabad University and is a Former Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Presently, he is a Distinguished Scientist & Professor of Eminence at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology; Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Ritnand Balved Education Foundation; and Vice Chairman of the Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 300 papers, and is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society, Germany; National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and Microbiology Society of India.
