%0 Journal Article
%T Microbial Growth and Decay: A Commented Review of the Model
%A Alberto Schiraldi
%J Advances in Microbiology
%P 1-10
%@ 2165-3410
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/aim.2024.141001
%X 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.
%K Microbial Cultures
%K Model
%K Time Scale
%K Growth and Decay
%K Evolution
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=130476