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.