Cleanroom
Microbiology is a new book written by international experts Tim Sandle (Head of
Microbiology at BPL, U.K. and visiting tutor with the University of Manchester)
and R. Vijayakumar (Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the College of
Science, Zulfi, Majmaah University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).
This
book is about cleanrooms and controlled environments in relation to the
pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. The book is applicable to both the
sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical sectors and its focus is upon cleanroom
microbiology.
Modern
approaches to contamination control place a greater emphasis upon environmental
control than they do on upon monitoring. This requires an understand of risk
assessment; hence risk management and contamination control strategies feature strongly in the text.
The
book fills a much needed gap in the microbiology and contamination control
spheres. While there are books on cleanrooms available, these focus almost
entirely on the physical and rarely address microbiological risks. Similarly,
there are various books on microbiology (even a few about pharmaceutical
microbiology), yet these books rarely mention cleanrooms, or, where they do,
give controlled environments limited coverage.
To
the authors of Cleanroom Microbiology, these two domains, normally separated by
different functions, are inseparable. This book is about cleanrooms and
controlled environments in relation to the pharmaceutical and healthcare
sectors and is applicable to both the sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical
sectors with its focus on cleanroom microbiology.
The
book contains 16 chapters which cover a range of key topics. These include
cleanroom standards, environmental monitoring, cleaning and disinfection, staff
behaviours, understanding the microbiome of human skin, culture media,
microbial identification and more.
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