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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 102, Issue 3, Pages 257-275Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2004.12.018
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LAG phase; LIP; microorganism growth; population dynamics
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The variety of models that are currently being used in Predictive Microbiology or Microbial Ecology aiming at reproducing the growth curve of microorganisms motivates this study. It is widely agreed that no model can reproduce generically and consistently the LAG Phase of microorganism growth. To promote the objective of predictive modeling, we present here a model that was derived from first biological and physical principles, which is shown to reproduce qualitatively as well as quantitatively all typical features captured, experimentally in microorganism growth. In particular, this paper focuses on capturing and controlling of the LAG Phase a typical phase in microorganisms growth, at the initial growth stages, as well as the inflection point on the In curve of the cell concentration, i.e. a Logarithmic Inflection Point referred here as LIP. The proposed model also captures the Logistic Growth curve as a special case. Comparison of the solutions obtained from the proposed model with experimental data confirms its quantitative validity, as well as its ability to recover a wide range of qualitative features captured in experiments. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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