Schiraldi, A. (2022) The Origin of the Time Scale: A Crucial Issue for Predictive Microbiology. Journal of Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 10, 35-42.
https://doi.org/10.12691/jaem-10-1-4

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• TITLE: Microbial Growth and Decay: A Commented Review of the Model

  AUTHORS: Alberto Schiraldi

  KEYWORDS: Microbial Cultures, Model, Time Scale, Growth and Decay, Evolution

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Microbiology, Vol.14 No.1, January 15, 2024

  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.