Topical
Antimicrobial Testing and Evaluation

by Daryl S. Paulson

This up-to-date reference/text comprehensively presents and reviews techniques for testing antibacterial compounds, providing the ways of getting products approved by the FDA and the means of servicing expanding markets.

This is an indispensable reference for cosmetic scientist and technologists, quality assurance personnel, food scientists and technologists, topical antimicrobial product manufacturers, medical infection control scientists, microbiologists, and virologists.

Topical Antimicrobial Testing and Evaluation takes a unique approach of:

• summarizing new compounds for dissolving or breaching bacteria capsules and membranes
  
• interpreting standards set by federal regulatory agencies such as the FDA
  
• explaining how to reduce the threat to immunologically compromised patients from infectious disease in healthcare environments
  
• exploring the skin and its benign "resident" microorganisms, as well as skin exfoliation as a means of eliminating potentially pathogenic "nonresident" microbes
  
• examining immediate, persistent, and residual effects of antimicrobials and their relationship with purpose-specific topical agents
  
• evaluating the importance of experimental design
  
• illustrating ways of correcting certain biases latent in some experimental methods
  
• describing parametric statistical models such as analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, and exploratory data analysis, as well as nonparametric methods, demonstrating their application with a wide variety of examples
  
• and more!