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Bacteria Growth

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  • Refers to increase in bacterial cell numbers - not an increase in size of individual cells
  • Most bacteria reproduce by binary fission
  • The bacterial cell:
    1) Elongates and makes a copy of its DNA
    2) Divides into two identical cells
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Exponential Growth

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  • Because bacteria divide by binary fission, the population of cells will double every generation
  • Time required for population to double = generation time
  • Varies greatly between different bacteria
  • E.coli has generation time = 20 minutes
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis = 24 hours
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Bacterial Growth in the Lab

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  • Culture: microbes growing in a medium

- Inoculation: introducing microbes into a medium to start a culture

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Batch Culture

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  • Closed system
  • One started, no other nutrients added
  • When nutrients are used up - bacteria stop growing
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Continuous Culture

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  • Open system

- Nutrients are continuously added, wastes are continuously removed - supports indefinite growth

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The Growth Curve in Batch Culture

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1) Lag Phase
2) Exponential Phase (Log Phase)
3) Stationary Phase
4) Death Phase
5) Phase of Prolonged Decline

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Lag Phase

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  • Period of adaptation

- Cells adjust to new media and get ready to grow

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Exponential Phase

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  • Period of maximal reproduction - Cell numbers increase exponentially
  • Used to calculate generation time
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Stationary Phase

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  • Cells have reached maximum population density
  • Nutrients have been used up, or wastes have accumulated
  • No increase in cell number
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Death Phase

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  • Toxic waste products have accumulated

- Cells die at a uniform rate

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Phase of Prolonged Decline

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  • Sometimes a small fraction of population survives the death phase
  • May consume nutrients released from dying cells
  • Selects for the strongest cells in the population
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Temperature Requirements

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  • Each species of microbe has its own specific temperatures range
  • This range usually spans about 30 degree C
  • Minimum = lowest temp supporting growth
  • Optimum = temperature that supports best growth
  • Maximum = highest temp supporting growth
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Psychrophiles

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  • Cold loving
  • Grow between 5 to 15 degree C
  • Killed at 20
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Psychrotrophs

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  • Have a very broad temp range
  • Min: about 5
  • Max: About 30-45
  • Optimum: 15-30
  • These are the microbes that cause food to spoil in your fridge
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Mesophiles

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  • Moderate temperature loving
  • Min: about 10
  • Max: about 45
  • Optimum: 25-45
  • Most bacteria are mesophiles
  • Most pathogens (diseases causing microbes) have temperature optimum of 37 degree C
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Thermophiles

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  • Heat loving
  • Min: about 40
  • Max: about 80
  • Optimum: about 65
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Hyperthermophiles

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  • Min: about 75
  • Max: up to 121
  • Restricted to very few places on earth where water reaches these temperature (deep ocean vents)
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Food Safety

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  • Involves the use of both hot and cold temperatures
  • Heat is used to kill mesophilic and psychotropic microbes (Cooking)
  • Cold temp is used to slow growth – Only psychrotrops will grow in a refrigerator and slowly
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Obligate Aerobes

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Require O2 for respiration (energy generation)

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Facultative Anaerobes

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Can use O2 for respiration but can also grow in its absence

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Obligate Anaerobes

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Cannot use O2 and are killed by it

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Microaerophiles

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Require O2 in low amounts, but killed by high concentrations

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Aerotolerant Anaerobes

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Cannot use O2, but are not killed by it

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pH

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  • Measurement of acidity or alkalinity
  • pH below 7 = acidic
  • pH above 7 = alkaline
  • pH of 7 = neutral
  • Most bacteria grow at or near neutral pH (6.5-7.5)
  • Bacteria that grow at very low pH: Acidophiles
  • Bacteria that grow at high pH: Alkaliphiles
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Osmotic Pressure

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  • Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules across a semi-permeable barrier
  • Ex. Movement of water through the cytoplasmic membrane
  • H2O will move from area of high concentration to area of low concentration
  • Osmotic pressure is important in food preservation
  • Some bacteria have adapted to life in high salt concentrations - requiring up to 30% NaCl = extreme halophiles - bacteria that live in the Dead Sea
  • Blood has a salt concentration of about 0.9% (does not inhibit growth of microorganisms)
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Hypertonic Solution

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  • High solute concentration
  • Ex. Salt or Sugar
  • Water flows out of the cell
  • Cell dries up - plasmolysis
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Hypotonic Solution

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  • Low solute concentration
  • Water flows into cell
  • Cell bursts - Osmotic Lysis
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Isotonic Solution

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Condition where solute concentration on outside of cell is equal to that inside the cell

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Carbon (Nutritional Factors that Influence Growth)

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  • Required for all organic molecules - backbone of living matter
  • Heterotrophs - Take carbon from organic matter - sugars
  • Autotrophs - Use inorganic carbon - CO2
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Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus (Nutritional Factors that Influence Growth)

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  • Required in smaller amounts for synthesis of cellular material
  • Example: Protein, Nucleic Acids, Phospholipids, ATP
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Trace Elements (Nutritional Factors that Influence Growth)

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  • Required in very small amounts

- Example: Iron, Zinc, Molybdenum

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Energy (Nutritional Factors that Influence Growth)

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  • Organisms need energy to build cell material and drive cellular processes
  • Phototrophs - Harvest energy from sunlight
  • Chemotrophs - acquire energy from chemical compounds - May be organic or inorganic (Sugars)
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Nutritional Diversity

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Organisms are classified based on how they obtain their carbon and energy

  • Photoautotrophs
  • Photoheterotrophs
  • Chemoautotrophs
  • Chemeoheterotrophs
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Photoautotrophs

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  • Use sunlight for energy
  • CO2 as carbon source = Photosynthesis
  • Includes - some bacteria (Algae and Plants)
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Photoheterotrophs

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  • Use sunlight for energy

- Obtain organic carbon from food - some bacteria

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Chemoautotrophs

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  • Obtain energy from inorganic chemicals
  • Use CO2 as carbon source
  • Only done by some bacteria
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Chemeoheterotrophs

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  • Obtain energy from organic chemicals
  • Use the same organic chemicals as their source of carbon
  • All animals, fungi and protozoa
  • Most bacteria
  • All medically relevant bacteria are chemoheterotrophs
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Solid Media (Agar Petri Plates) (Culture Media)

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  • Made by adding agar (solidifying agent) to liquid media - cannot be degraded by most bacteria
  • Allows growth of colonies:
    1) A genetically identical population of cells
    2) Allow the isolation of pure cultures
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Chemically Defined (Culture Media)

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  • The exact chemical composition of the medium is known
  • Ex. Media made from known quantities of salts and sugars
  • Also known as minimal media
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Chemically Undefined (Culture Media)

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  • Contains rich organic ingredients (so the chemical composition is not known)
  • Ex. Media containing yeast extratct (all of the soluble components from crushed yeast cells)
  • Also known as complex media
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Selective Media

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  • Prevents the growth of unwanted organisms, allowing only the desired microbes to grow
  • Ex. Bismuth sulfite agar - used to culture Salmonella typhi
  • Inhibits growth of all Gram positive and most Gram negative bacteria
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Differential Media

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  • Used to distinguish different bacteria
  • All can grow - but colonies of certain bacteria look different the plate
  • Ex. Blood agar plates
  • Used to distinguish bacteria that can lyse (and eat) red blood cells (Streptococcus pyogenes)
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Direct Count

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  • Cells are counted using a light microscope
  • Usually employs a special counting chamber
  • Inaccurate because it counts both live and dead cells
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Visible Counts

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  • Only live cells are counted
  • A liquid culture is diluted and plated onto agar plates to grow colonies
  • Each colony on a plate represents a single cell from the original culture
  • Colonies are counted, and used to calculate the number of bacteria in the original culture
  • Counts are always expressed as cfg per ml: colony forming units - assumption is that 1 cfg = 1 live bacterial cell

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