Pharmaceutical microbiology essentials for quality assurance and quality control

This book is concerned with pharmaceutical microbiology. Pharmaceutical microbiology is a relatively new discipline, or at least, one defined as a distinct subject matter. A trawl though textbooks pre-dating the mid-1980s reveals very few references to this sub-division of microbiology. Pharmaceutical microbiology can be simplified as being concerned with keeping microorganisms in control within the environment and hence from contaminating the product and harnessing microorganisms to make efficacious pharmaceutical medications [1]. Here pharmacists and microbiologists work synergistically to ensure that drug therapies target opportunistic microorganisms without harming its human host.