New Insights into Modelling Bacterial Growth with Reference to the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum.

ABSTRACT: Two new models, based upon the principles promulgated by Baranyi and co-workers are presented and resulting growth functions evaluated based upon their ability to mimic bacterial growth of the fish pathogen Flavobacteriumpsychrophilum. These growth functions make use of a dampening function to suppress potential growth, represented by a logistic, and are derived from rate:state differential equations. Dampening effects are represented by a rectangular hyperbola or a simple exponential, incorporated into a logistic differential equation and solved analytically resulting in two newly derived growth equations, viz. logistic × hyperbola (log × hyp) and logistic × exponential (log × exp). These characteristics result in flexible and robust growth functions that can be expressed as equations wit

SUBMITTER: Powell CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7143051 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature