Essential Microbiology for Wound Care

Zusatztext I would definitively recommend having this book in the personal library of every one working in the antimicrobial field. Informationen zum Autor Val Edwards-Jones is Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University and Clinical Director at MelBec Microbiology Ltd, Lancashire, an independent microbiology company. A forty year career in Microbiology, she has nineteen years in the NHS and twenty one as an academic researcher. Her research interests are wound infection, toxic shock syndrome, alternative treatment strategies and rapid diagnosis of infection using mass spectrometry. She is consultant Microbiologist for the Channel TV show Embarrassing Bodies. Klappentext Covers the key areas and the science of microbiology from a point of view relevant to a range of practitioners working in wound care who wish to enhance their skills at a postgraduate level. Zusammenfassung Covers the key areas and the science of microbiology from a point of view relevant to a range of practitioners working in wound care who wish to enhance their skills at a postgraduate level. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Valerie Edwards-Jones: Introduction 2: Valerie Edwards-Jones: Microbiology - The basics 3: Geoff Edwards-Jones: Collection, transport and laboratory processing of wound, tissue, and bone samples 4: Richard White: Acute versus chronic wounds: microbiological differences 5: Valerie Edwards-Jones: Wound pathogens 6: Rose Cooper: Understanding biofilms 7: Chris Roberts: Antimicrobial agents used in wound care 8: Madeleine Flanagan: Dressings used in wound care 9: Martin Kiernan: Infection Prevention and Control 10: Jacqui Fletcher, Keith Harding, and Alastair Richards: Treatment Strategies for Wound Infection 11: Valerie Edwards-Jones, Chris Roberts, Richard White, and Madeline Flanagan: Future of wound care Index

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• Authors: Valerie Edwards-Jones, Valerie (Professor of Medical Micro Edwards-Jones
• Assisted by: Valerie Edwards-Jones (Editor), Valerie (Professor of Medical Microbiology Edwards-Jones (Editor), Edwards-Jones Valerie (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2016
• EAN: 9780198716006
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871600-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Dermatology, MEDICAL / Pathology, Pathology, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, MEDICAL / Microbiology, Dermatology, Medical microbiology & virology, Accident & emergency medicine, Accident and emergency medicine, Medical microbiology and virology