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Microbial Growth and Decay: A Commented Review of the Model
Formerly at Dept. Food Environ. Nutr. Sci. (DeFENS), University of Milan (Italy), Milan, Italy
- 1 Formerly at Dept. Food Environ. Nutr. Sci. (DeFENS), University of Milan (Italy), Milan, Italy
Advances in Microbiology·Volume 14 (2024)·Pages 1–10·Published 12 January 2024·DOI10.4236/aim.2024.141001
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Abstract
The paper reviews previous publications and reports some comments about a semi empirical model of the growth and decay process of a planktonic microbial culture. After summarizing and reshaping some fundamental mathematical expressions, the paper highlights the reasons for the choice of a suitable time origin that makes the parameters of the model self-consistent. Besides the potential applications to predictive microbiology studies and to effects of bactericidal drugs, the model allows a suitable proxy of the fitness of the microbial culture, which can be of interest for the studies on the evolution across some thousand generations of a Long Term Evolution Experiment.
KeywordsMicrobial CulturesModelTime ScaleGrowth and DecayEvolution
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