Kendra P. Rumbaugh • Iqbal Ahmad
Editors

2014

From Diagnosis to Treatment and Prevention
Volume 8

The editors would like to dedicate this text to the late Dr. Bill Costerton, who is regarded as “The Father of Biofilm.” Bill spent the good part of his career working tirelessly to alert and convince the medical community about the existence and importance of biofilms. The fact that many medical specialties are now addressing the “biofilm problem” is in no small degree because of his contributions and those of the scientists he trained and mentored. Biofilms comprise microbial microcolonies adhered to a surface and surrounded by a sticky exopolysaccharide matrix.