Stochasticity in colonial growth dynamics of individual bacterial cells

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2294-2301

  Koutsoumanis, Konstantinos P ^a   Lianou, Alexandra ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INITIAL POPULATION; MAXIMUM SPECIFIC GROWTH RATES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE TYPHIMURIUM; TIME-LAPSE MICROSCOPY;

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SALMONELLA; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; CLONAL GROWTH; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; LYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84875524890     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03629-12     Document Type: Article

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