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Phys Biol
; 19(6)2022 09 15.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35998621
RESUMO
We propose a compressed logistic model for bacterial growth by invoking a time-dependent rate instead of the intrinsic growth rate (constant), which was adopted in traditional logistic models. The new model may have a better physiological basis than the traditional ones, and it replicates experimental observations, such as the case example forE. coli, Salmonella,andStaphylococcus aureus. Stochastic colonial growth at a different rate may have a fractal-like nature, which should be an origin of the time-dependent reaction rate. The present model, from a stochastic viewpoint, is approximated as a Gaussian time evolution of bacteria (error function).