T. Fintan Moriarty • Sebastian A.J. Zaat
Henk J. Busscher
Editors

2013

The use of biomaterials in modern medicine has greatly contributed to patient care allowing less-invasive patient monitoring, improvements in the administration of medicines, and enhanced patient mobility contributing to improvements in quality of life. Relatively early in the evolution of medical devices, however, it was realized that the use of implanted biomaterials also results in an increased susceptibility to infection. This increase in infection susceptibility appears to be present across all biomaterials classes, regardless of form or function and has remained to this day as one of the most common, yet unresolved problems associated with the use of implanted biomaterials.