Main description:

This book gathers international knowledge and contemporary clinical and scientific evidence on infections associated with the musculoskeletal system at a time when we are confronted with significant challenges and uncertainty. A key focus of the book is enhancing and advancing future discovery in the detection, prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal infection. This is an ideal book for physicians, surgeons, research scientists, university students, as well as medical and allied health students.

Contents:

1. The Musculoskeletal Burden - Where are we now?2. Bacterial Adhesion, Virulence and Biofilm Formation

3. Prevention of Infection: Best Practice and Novel Strategies4. Prosthetic Infection: Colonization and Diagnosis5. Soft Tissue Infections6. Incidence, Complications and Novel Treatment Strategies: Diabetic Ulcer of the Limb7. Incidence, Complications and Novel Treatment Strategies: Osteomyelitis8. Incidence, Complications and Novel Treatment Strategies: Joint Arthroplasty9. Incidence, Complications and Novel Treatment Strategies: Massive Bone Tumour Surgery10. Incidence, Complications and Novel Treatment Strategies: Pediatric Spinal Surgery & Management11. War Wounds and Orthopaedic Trauma Devices