Search results for “[Subject: infection-control]”

• Author(s): Silpi Basak • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Preventive MedicineHealth Care associated infection (HAI) is an emerging problem worldwide. HAI causes increased morbidity, mortality and average length of ...

• Author(s): Bassam Annous • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesThe discovery of Salmonella in swine in 1885 marked the beginning of intense efforts to control salmonellae that have continued for the...

• Author(s): Christopher Sudhakar • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Preventive MedicineHealth care associated infection is coupled with significant morbidity and mortality. Prevention and control of infection is ind...

• Author(s): Umar Bacha • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryHealthcare Access - Regional Overviews is a compilation of ten chapters consisting of case studies, research works, reviews, and expert o...

• Author(s): Manal Mohammad Baddour • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesSkin is a natural barrier to infection. Surgical breakage of skin can lead to surgical site infections (SSIs). SSIs are relati...

• Author(s): Theresa Li-Yun Chang • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesHIV remains the major global health threat, and neither vaccine nor cure is available. Increasing our knowledge on HIV infection...

• Author(s): Samuel Ikwaras Okware • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesThe HIV epidemic has had a significant and profound impact on the world and health resources. Considerable progress has been ma...

• Author(s): Mihai Mares • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesThe genus Salmonella comprises an important number of bacterial species able to colonize and infect numerous animal species and humans. A...

• Author(s): Doblin Sandai • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Life Sciences - MycologyThis book highlights modern techniques of research into Candida albicans, especially in terms of emerging and emerged pathogenic C...

• Author(s): Waleed Mohamed Hussain Abdulkhair • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: PathologyThis book examines the risk of Phytophthora infection on different economic plants. It is divided into three sections that ad...

• Author(s): Amidou Samie • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesTropical diseases affect millions of people throughout the world and particularly in the developing countries. The millennium developmen...

• Author(s): Isin Akyar • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesToxoplasma gondii was first identified more than 100 years ago in the tissues of birds and mammals. Although toxoplasmosis is important al...

• Author(s): Barakat S. M. Mahmoud • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesMore than 2,500 serotypes of Salmonella exist. However, only some of these serotypes have been frequently associated with food-...

• Author(s): Rıza Hakan Erbay • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Critical CareKnowledge of intensive care medicine is growing logarithmically. In addition, intensive care units and their number of beds are increasing...

• Author(s): Maria del Mar Ortega-Villaizan • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: ImmunologyInfectious microbial agents such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites can cause pathological disorders and even death in ...

• Author(s): Sahra Kırmusaoğlu • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: MicrobiologyTo prevent bacterial adherence, invasion and infection, antimicrobials such as antibiotics are being used and vastly researched nowdays. S...

• Author(s): Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: MicrobiologyCandida albicans, a fungal pathobiont, is the major component of the microbiota communities in healthy adults. It resides in th...

• Author(s): Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesChikungunya, an arbovirus, is a major global threat affecting multiple areas of the world, even Europe, but recently (20...

• Author(s): Sadık Dincer | Melis Sumengen Ozdenefe | Hatice Aysun Mercimek Takci • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: MicrobiologyThis volume presents a multidisciplinary exploration of bacterial biofilms, resilient m...

• Author(s): Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: OphthalmologyInfectious eye disorders represent one of the most feared, sight-threatening, and challenging clinical ocular conditions. Visual...

• Author(s): Varaprasad Bobbarala • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: MicrobiologyThis edition is intended to provide better understanding of antibacterial drugs and their mechanism, the role of a few metal drug compl...

• Author(s): Sadia Sultan • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Food Science - GeneralThis book is specially written for researchers at various levels, for example, in forestry, agriculture, industry, university and col...

• Author(s): Fyson Kasenga • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesLike any other book on the subject of HIV/AIDS, this book is not a substitute or exhausting the subject in question. It aims at complem...

• Author(s): Shymaa Enany • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Life Sciences - BacteriologyClostridium difficile bacteria could be found everywhere around us: in the air, water, and soil and in the feces of humans and ...

• Author(s): Sadik Dincer • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)This book examines biofilms in nature. Organized into four parts, this book addresses biofilms in...

• Author(s): Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesStaphylococcus aureus is a coccus, gram-positive, non-spore forming, and non-motile bacterium. Its commensal and opportu...

• Author(s): Gyula Mozsik • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesThis book provides an overview of norovirus, a viral infection that adversely affects the gastrointestinal system. Unfortunately, there ...

• Author(s): Bhawana Singh • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: ImmunologyThis book discusses contemporary ideas on different molecular and immunological aspects of diseases. Different signaling mediators drive the pro...

• Author(s): Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Infectious DiseasesIntestinal parasites have been one of the leading infections since prehistoric times, threatening human life and reducin...