Microbial Growth and Decay: A Commented Review of the Model ()
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.
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Schiraldi, A. (2024) Microbial Growth and Decay: A Commented Review of the Model.
Advances in Microbiology,
14, 1-10. doi:
10.4236/aim.2024.141001.
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