Perspectives on Infectious Disease Challenges and Antimicrobial Answers -- Infections of Intracardiac Devices -- Infections in Orthopaedics -- Physicochemical Basis of Bacterial Adhesion to Biomaterial Surfaces -- Albumin Affinity Coatings May Prevent Foreign-Body Infections -- Immobilized Biocides as an Alternative Strategy for Control of Microbial Contamination -- Anti-Infective Coatings Reduce Device-Related Infections -- Reduced Implant-Related Infectious Complications by Surface Modification Providing Controlledt ... -- A Chemically Intelligent Infection-Resistant Coating -- Merging of Biomedical and Textile Technologies in Order to Create Infection-Resistant Prosthetic ... -- Aseptic Approaches and Novel Antimicrobial Catheters for Prevention of Infection of Vascular ... -- Anti-Infective Devices in Otolaryngology: Current Applications and Future Opportunities -- Laboratory Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing -- Toward Dollar Devices for Measuring Metabolic Biochemistry -- Sisyphus in the Microbial World: Antimicrobial Strategies and Humanity's Health.