A study using a small range of pathogenic bacterial species (Aeromonas hydrophila, Enterobacter sakazakii, Shigella flexneri, Yersinia enterocolitica and 3 strains of Staphylococcus aureus) has shown that potassium chloride ...

A fundamental aspect of predictive microbiology is the shape of the microbial growth curve and many models are used to fit microbial count data, the modified Gompertz and Baranyi equation being two of the most widely ...

Aims: To investigate the appropriateness of the extended Lambert-Pearson model (ELPM) to model the effect of pH (as hydrogen and hydroxyl ions) over the whole biokinetic pH range in comparison with other available models. ...