In the pharmaceutical industry, Microbiologists have a key role in the Quality control process to ensure that the contamination of the pharmaceutical products by the pathogenic microbes doesn't occur which otherwise may compromise patient's safety and jeopardize the therapeutics. Microbiologists also play a lead role in the pharma industries involved in immunologicals and vaccine manufacturing. In this book, the authors had discussed in detail the Microbiological aspect of pharmaceutical Quality control for different processes at different steps including procedural, instrumental, and...

Les souches productrices de bêta-lactamase à spectre étendu (BLSE) posent le plus grand défi thérapeutique et ont été signalées comme un pathogène émergent causant des infections nosocomiales potentiellement mortelles. Les pays en développement sont les plus touchés par ce problème et représentent une part importante des infections nosocomiales. Le fait de ne pas détecter les microbes producteurs de BLSE lors de l'échec du traitement clinique entraîne une augmentation de la morbidité, de la mortalité, des complications, du coût du traitement et, surtout, des épidémies de...

This book is prepared to help students and practitioners involved in the field of Medicine and Dentistry to understand the basic concepts of evidence based practice. A step-wise approach is adopted in this book to explain the evidence based learning process e.g. how to frame a proper clinical question, to seek its answer from the available literature and then critically appraise the available research material on that particular problem using User s Guides. Separate chapters are written to discuss different epidemiological studies with special focus on randomized controlled trials and...

Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) is a chronic inflammation of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, which presents with a perforated tympanic membrane, through which microorganisms can enter into the middle ear. Infection can spread from the middle ear to vital structures such as the mastoid, facial nerve, labyrinth, lateral sinus, meninges, and brain. It is a common cause of hearing impairment and can occasionally lead to fatal intracranial infection.Prevalence surveys estimate that the global burden of illness from CSOM may involve 65 to 330 million individuals with draining ears....