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Volume 170, Issue 2

Microbial Primer: Bacterial growth kinetics Open Access

This article is part of the Microbial Primers collection.

Abstract

tGrowth of microorganisms and interpretation of growth data are core skills required by microbiologists. While science moves forward, it is of paramount importance that essential skills are not lost. The bacterial growth curve and the information that can gleaned from it is of great value to all of microbiology, whether this be a simple growth experiment, comparison of mutant strains or the establishment of conditions for a large-scale multi-omics experiment. Increasingly, the basics of plotting and interpreting growth curves and growth data are being overlooked. This primer article serves as a refresher for microbiologists on the fundamentals of microbial growth kinetics.

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Keyword(s): bacterial growth , chemostat and growth curve
© 2024 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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Microbial Primer: Bacterial growth kinetics
Microbiology 170, 001428 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001428
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