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MICROBIAL
GROWTH:
✓ Refers to an increase in cell number, not in
cell size.
✓ Bacteria grow and divide by binary fission,
a rapid and relatively simple process.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
1.Temperature: Microbes are loosely
classifiedinto several groups based on their
preferred temperatureranges.
A. Psychrophiles: “Cold-loving”. Can grow at
0oC. Two groups:
◆True Psychrophiles: Sensitive to temperatures over
20oC. Optimum growth at 15oC or below. Found in
very cold environments (North pole, ocean depths).
Seldom cause disease or foodspoilage.
◆Psychrotrophs : Optimum growth at 20 to 30oC.
Responsible for most low temperature food spoilage.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
1. Temperature:
B. Mesophiles: “Middle loving"
◆Include most pathogens and common spoilage
organisms.
◆Best growth between 25 to 40oC.
◆Optimum temperature commonly 37oC.
◆Many have adapted to live in the bodies of animals.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
1. Temperature:
C. Thermophiles: “Heatloving”.
◆Optimum growth between 50 to60oC.
◆Many cannot grow below 45oC.
◆Adapted to live in sunlit soil, compost piles, and hot
springs.
◆Some thermophiles form extremely heat resistant
endospores.
◆Extreme Thermophiles (Hyperthermophiles):
Optimum growth at 80oC or higher. Archaebacteria.
Most live in volcanic and oceanvents.
Growth Rates of Bacterial Groups
at Different Temperatures
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
2. pH:
✓ Most bacteria prefer neutral pH(6.5-7.5).
✓ Molds and yeast grow in wider pH range, but
prefer pH between 5 and6.
✓ Acidity inhibits most microbial growth and is used
frequently for food preservation.
✓ Alkalinity inhibits microbial growth, but not
commonly used for food preservation.
✓ Acidic products of bacterial metabolism interfere
with growth. Buffers can be used to stabilize pH.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
3. Osmotic Pressure: Cells are 80 to 90% water.
A.Hypertonic solutions : High osmotic pressure
removes water from cell, causing shrinkage of cell
membrane (plasmolysis).
Used to control spoilage and microbial growth.
◆ Sugar in jelly.
◆ Salt on meat.
B.Hypotonicsolutions: Low osmotic pressure causes
water to enter the cell. In most cases cell wall
prevents excessive entry of water. Microbe may
lyse or burst if cell wall is weak.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS
1. Carbon : Makes up 50% of dry weight of cell.
◆ Structural backbone of all organic compounds.
◆Chemoheterotrophs : Obtain carbon from their energy
source: lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates.
◆Chemoautotrophs and Photoautotrophs : Obtain
carbon from carbon dioxide.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS
2. Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus: .
A. Nitrogen: Makes up 14% of dry cell weight. Used to
form amino acids, DNA, and RNA.
Sources of nitrogen:
◆ Protein: Most bacteria
◆ Ammonium : Found in organic matter
◆Nitrogen gas (N2): Obtain N directly from atmosphere.
Important nitrogen fixing bacteria, live free in soil or
associated with legumes (peas, beans, alfalfa, clover, etc.).
Legume cultivation is used to fertilize soilnaturally.
-
◆ Nitrates: Salts that dissociate to give NO3 .
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS
2. Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus: .
B. Sulfur: Used to form proteins and some vitamins
(thiamin and biotin).
Sources of sulfur:
◆ Protein: Most bacteria
◆ Hydrogen sulfide
2-
◆ Sulfates: Salts that dissociate to give SO 4 .
C. Phosphorus : Used to form DNA, RNA, ATP, and
phospholipids.
Sources: Mainly inorganic phosphate salts and buffers.
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS
3.Other Elements: Potassium, magnesium, and
calcium are often required as enzyme cofactors.
Calcium is required for cell wall synthesis in Gram
positive bacteria.
4. Trace Elements: .
Many are used as enzyme cofactors.
Commonly found in tap water.
◆ Iron
◆ Copper
◆ Molybdenum
◆ Zinc
REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH
CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS
5. Oxygen: Organisms that use molecular oxygen
(O2), produce more energy from nutrients than
anaerobes.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Culture Medium: Nutrientmaterial preparedfor
microbial growth in the laboratory.
Requirements:
✓ Must be sterile
✓ Contain appropriatenutrients
✓Must be incubated at appropriate temperature
Culture: Microbes that grow and multiply in or ona
culture medium.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Solid Media: Nutrient material that contains a
solidifying agent (plates, slants, deeps).
The most common solidifier is agar, first used by
Robert Koch.
Unique Properties of Agar:
✓ Melts above 95oC.
✓ Once melted, does not solidify until it reaches 40oC.
✓ Cannot be degraded by most bacteria.
✓ Polysaccharide made by red algae.
✓ Originally used as food thickener.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Chemically Defined Media: Nutrient material whose
exact chemical composition is known.
✓ For chemoheterotrophs, must contain organic source
of carbon and energy (e.g.: glucose, starch, etc.).
✓ May also contain amino acids, vitamins, and other
important building blocks required by microbe.
✓ Not widely used.
✓ Expensive.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Complex Media: Nutrient material whose exact
chemical composition is not known.
✓ Widely used for heterotrophic bacteria and fungi.
✓ Made of extracts from yeast, meat, plants, protein digests, etc.
✓ Composition may vary slightly from batch tobatch.
✓ Energy, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur requirements are
primarily met by protein fragments (peptones).
✓ Vitamins and organic growth factors provided by meat and
yeast extracts.
✓ Two forms of complex media:
• Nutrient broth: Liquid media
• Nutrient agar: Solidmedia
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Anaerobic Growth Media: Used to grow anaerobes
that might be
✓ Reducing media killed by oxygen.
✓ Contain ingredients that chemically combine with
oxygen and remove it from the medium.
Example: Sodium thioglycolate
✓ Tubes are heated shortly before use to drive off
oxygen.
✓ Plates must be grown in oxygen free containers
(anaerobic chambers).
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Special Culture Techniques: Used to grow bacteria
with unusual growth requirements.
✓ Bacteria that do not grow on artificialmedia:
• Mycobacterium leprae (leprosy): Grown in armadillos.
• Treponema pallidum (syphilis): Grown in rabbit testicles.
• Obligate intracellular bacteria (rickettsias and
chlamydias): Only grow in host cells.
✓ Bacteria that require high or low CO2 levels:
• Capnophiles: Grow better at high CO 2 levels and low O 2
levels. Similar to environment of intestinal tract,
respiratory tract, and other tissues.
EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCINGCO2 RICH
ENVIRONMENTS
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Selective Media: Used to suppress the growth of
unwanted bacteria and encourage the growth of
desired microbes.
✓ Saboraud’s Dextrose Agar: pH of 5.6 discourages
bacterial growth. Used to isolate fungi.
✓ Brilliant Green Agar: Green dye selectively
inhibits gram-positive bacteria. Used to isolate
gram-negative Salmonella.
✓ Bismuth Sulfite Agar : Used to isolate Salmonella
typhi. Inhibits growth of most other bacteria.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Differential Media: Used to distinguish colonies of a
desired organism.
✓ Blood Agar: Used to distinguish bacteria that
destroy red blood cells (hemolysis).
Hemolysis appears as an area of clearingaround
colony.
Example: Streptococcus pyogenes.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
• Both selective and differential media: used bothto distinguish
colonies of a desired organism, and inhibit thegrowth ofother
microbes.
✓ mannitol salt agar: used to distinguish andselect for
Staphylococcus aureus.
• high salt (7.5% NaCl) discourages growth ofother
organisms.
• pH indicator changes color when mannitol is fermented
to acid.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
• both selective and differential media: used bothto distinguish
colonies of a desired organism, and inhibit thegrowth ofother
microbes.
✓ macconkey agar: used to distinguish and select for Salmonella .
• bile salts and crystal violet discourage growth ofgram-
positive bacteria.
• lactose plus pH indicator: lactose fermentersproduce
pink or red colonies, nonfermenters arecolorless.
MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA
Enrichment Culture: Used to favor the growth of a
microbe that may be found in very small numbers.
◆Unlike selective medium, does not necessarily
suppress the growth of other microbes.
◆ Used mainly for fecal and soil samples.
◆After incubation in enrichment medium, greater
numbers of the organisms, increase the likelihood of
positive identification.
MICROBIAL GROWTH OBTAINING PURE CULTURES
Pure Culture: Contains a single microbial species.
Most clinical and environmental specimens contain
several different microorganisms.
To obtain a pure culture, individual organisms must be
isolated.
The most common method of isolation is the
streak plate , in which a sterile loop is inserted
into a sample and streaked onto a plate in a
pattern, to obtain individual colonies
Colony: A group of descendants of an original cell.
Microbial Growth
Growth of Bacterial Cultures
Bacterial Division: Occurs mainly by binary fission.
A few bacterial species reproduce by budding.
Generation Time: Time required for a cell todivide,
and its population to double.
Generation time varies considerably:
◆E. coli divides every 20 minutes.
◆Most bacteria divide every 1 to 3 hours.
◆Some bacteria require over 24 hours todivide.
Bacterial Growth: Binary Fission
MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH
Bacterial Growth Curve : When bacteria are
inoculated into a liquid growth medium, we can plot
of the number of cells in the population over time.
Four phases of Bacterial Growth:
1. Lag Phase:
✓ Period of adjustment to newconditions.
✓ Little or no cell division occurs, population size
doesn’t increase.
✓ Phase of intense metabolic activity, in which
individual organisms grow in size.
✓ May last from one hour to several days.
MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH
Four phases of Bacterial Growth:
2. Log Phase:
✓ Cells begin to divide and generation time reaches a
constant minimum.
✓ Period of most rapidgrowth.
Number of cells produced > Number of cells dying
✓ Cells are at highest metabolic activity.
✓ Cells are most susceptible to adverse
environmental factors at thisstage.
• Radiation
• Antibiotics
MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH
Four phases of Bacterial Growth:
3. StationaryPhase:
✓ Population size begins to stabilize.
Number of cells produced = Number of cells dying
✓ Overall cell number does not increase.
✓ Cell division begins to slow down.
✓ Factors that slow down microbial growth:
• Accumulation of toxic waste materials
• Acidic pH of media
• Limited nutrients
• Insufficient oxygen supply
MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH
Four phases of Bacterial Growth:
4. Death or Decline Phase:
✓ Population size begins to decrease.
Number of cells dying > Number of cells produced
✓ Cell number decreases at a logarithmic rate.
✓ Cells lose their ability todivide.
✓ A few cells may remain alive for a long period of
time.
Four Phases of Bacterial Growth Curve
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
1. Plate count:
✓ Most frequently used method of measuring bacterial
populations.
✓ Inoculate plate with a sample and count number of colonies.
Assumptions:
• Eachcolony originatesfrom a single bacterialcell.
• Original inoculum is homogeneous.
• No cell aggregates arepresent.
Advantages:
• Measures viable cells
Disadvantages:
• Takes24 hours or more for visible colonies to appear.
• Only countsbetween25 and 250 colonies are accurate.
• Must perform serial dilutions to get appropriatenumbers/plate.
Serial Dilutions are Used with the Plate Count
Method to Measure Numbers of Bacteria
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
1. Plate count:
A. Pour Plate:
✓ Introduce a 1.0 or 0.1 ml inoculuminto an empty Petri dish.
✓ Add liquid nutrient medium kept at50oC.
✓ Gently mix, allow to solidify, andincubate.
Disadvantages:
• Not useful for heat sensitiveorganisms.
• Colonies appear under agar surface.
B. Spread Plate:
✓ Introduce a 0.1 ml inoculum onto the surface of Petri dish.
✓ Spread with a sterile glass rod.
✓ Advantages: Colonies will be on surface and not exposed to
melted agar.
Pour Plates versus Spread Plates
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
2. Filtration:
✓ Used to measure small quantities of bacteria.
• Example: Fecal bacteria in a lake or in ocean water.
✓ A large sample (100 ml or more) is filtered to retain
bacteria.
✓ Filter is transferred onto a Petri dish.
✓ Incubate and count colonies.
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
3. Most Probable Number (MPN):
✓ Used mainly to measure bacteria that will not grow on
solid medium.
✓ Dilute a sample repeatedly and inoculate several broth
tubes for each dilution point.
✓ Count the number of positive tubes in each set.
✓ Statistical method: Determines 95% probability that a
bacterial population falls within a certain range.
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
4. Direct Microscopic Count:
✓ A specific volume of a bacterial suspension (0.01 ml) is
placed on a microscope slide with a specialgrid.
✓ Stain is added to visualize bacteria.
✓ Cells are counted and multiplied by a factor to obtain
concentration.
Advantages:
• No incubation time required.
Disadvantages:
• Cannot always distinguish between live and dead bacteria.
• Motile bacteria are difficult to count.
• Requires a high concentration of bacteria (10 million/ml).
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
INDIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
1. Turbidity:
✓ As bacteria multiply in media, it becomes turbid.
✓ Use a spectrophotometer to determine % transmission or
absorbance.
✓ Multiply by a factor to determineconcentration.
Advantages:
• No incubation time required.
Disadvantages:
• Cannot distinguish between live and dead bacteria.
• Requires a high concentration of bacteria (10 to 100 million
cells/ml).
MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH
INDIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT
2. Metabolic Activity:
✓ As bacteria multiply in media, they produce certain products:
• Carbon dioxide
• Acids
✓ Measure metabolic products.
✓ Expensive
3. Dry Weight:
✓ Bacteria or fungi in liquid media arecentrifuged.
✓ Resulting cell pellet is weighed.
✓ Doesn’t distinguish live and dead cells.
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microbial growth

  • 1.
  • 2. MICROBIAL GROWTH: ✓ Refers to an increase in cell number, not in cell size. ✓ Bacteria grow and divide by binary fission, a rapid and relatively simple process.
  • 3. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 1.Temperature: Microbes are loosely classifiedinto several groups based on their preferred temperatureranges. A. Psychrophiles: “Cold-loving”. Can grow at 0oC. Two groups: ◆True Psychrophiles: Sensitive to temperatures over 20oC. Optimum growth at 15oC or below. Found in very cold environments (North pole, ocean depths). Seldom cause disease or foodspoilage. ◆Psychrotrophs : Optimum growth at 20 to 30oC. Responsible for most low temperature food spoilage.
  • 4. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 1. Temperature: B. Mesophiles: “Middle loving" ◆Include most pathogens and common spoilage organisms. ◆Best growth between 25 to 40oC. ◆Optimum temperature commonly 37oC. ◆Many have adapted to live in the bodies of animals.
  • 5. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 1. Temperature: C. Thermophiles: “Heatloving”. ◆Optimum growth between 50 to60oC. ◆Many cannot grow below 45oC. ◆Adapted to live in sunlit soil, compost piles, and hot springs. ◆Some thermophiles form extremely heat resistant endospores. ◆Extreme Thermophiles (Hyperthermophiles): Optimum growth at 80oC or higher. Archaebacteria. Most live in volcanic and oceanvents.
  • 6. Growth Rates of Bacterial Groups at Different Temperatures
  • 7. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 2. pH: ✓ Most bacteria prefer neutral pH(6.5-7.5). ✓ Molds and yeast grow in wider pH range, but prefer pH between 5 and6. ✓ Acidity inhibits most microbial growth and is used frequently for food preservation. ✓ Alkalinity inhibits microbial growth, but not commonly used for food preservation. ✓ Acidic products of bacterial metabolism interfere with growth. Buffers can be used to stabilize pH.
  • 8. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 3. Osmotic Pressure: Cells are 80 to 90% water. A.Hypertonic solutions : High osmotic pressure removes water from cell, causing shrinkage of cell membrane (plasmolysis). Used to control spoilage and microbial growth. ◆ Sugar in jelly. ◆ Salt on meat. B.Hypotonicsolutions: Low osmotic pressure causes water to enter the cell. In most cases cell wall prevents excessive entry of water. Microbe may lyse or burst if cell wall is weak.
  • 9. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS 1. Carbon : Makes up 50% of dry weight of cell. ◆ Structural backbone of all organic compounds. ◆Chemoheterotrophs : Obtain carbon from their energy source: lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. ◆Chemoautotrophs and Photoautotrophs : Obtain carbon from carbon dioxide.
  • 10. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS 2. Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus: . A. Nitrogen: Makes up 14% of dry cell weight. Used to form amino acids, DNA, and RNA. Sources of nitrogen: ◆ Protein: Most bacteria ◆ Ammonium : Found in organic matter ◆Nitrogen gas (N2): Obtain N directly from atmosphere. Important nitrogen fixing bacteria, live free in soil or associated with legumes (peas, beans, alfalfa, clover, etc.). Legume cultivation is used to fertilize soilnaturally. - ◆ Nitrates: Salts that dissociate to give NO3 .
  • 11. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS 2. Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus: . B. Sulfur: Used to form proteins and some vitamins (thiamin and biotin). Sources of sulfur: ◆ Protein: Most bacteria ◆ Hydrogen sulfide 2- ◆ Sulfates: Salts that dissociate to give SO 4 . C. Phosphorus : Used to form DNA, RNA, ATP, and phospholipids. Sources: Mainly inorganic phosphate salts and buffers.
  • 12. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS 3.Other Elements: Potassium, magnesium, and calcium are often required as enzyme cofactors. Calcium is required for cell wall synthesis in Gram positive bacteria. 4. Trace Elements: . Many are used as enzyme cofactors. Commonly found in tap water. ◆ Iron ◆ Copper ◆ Molybdenum ◆ Zinc
  • 13. REQUIREMENTS FORGROWTH CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS 5. Oxygen: Organisms that use molecular oxygen (O2), produce more energy from nutrients than anaerobes.
  • 14. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Culture Medium: Nutrientmaterial preparedfor microbial growth in the laboratory. Requirements: ✓ Must be sterile ✓ Contain appropriatenutrients ✓Must be incubated at appropriate temperature Culture: Microbes that grow and multiply in or ona culture medium.
  • 15. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Solid Media: Nutrient material that contains a solidifying agent (plates, slants, deeps). The most common solidifier is agar, first used by Robert Koch. Unique Properties of Agar: ✓ Melts above 95oC. ✓ Once melted, does not solidify until it reaches 40oC. ✓ Cannot be degraded by most bacteria. ✓ Polysaccharide made by red algae. ✓ Originally used as food thickener.
  • 16. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Chemically Defined Media: Nutrient material whose exact chemical composition is known. ✓ For chemoheterotrophs, must contain organic source of carbon and energy (e.g.: glucose, starch, etc.). ✓ May also contain amino acids, vitamins, and other important building blocks required by microbe. ✓ Not widely used. ✓ Expensive.
  • 17. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Complex Media: Nutrient material whose exact chemical composition is not known. ✓ Widely used for heterotrophic bacteria and fungi. ✓ Made of extracts from yeast, meat, plants, protein digests, etc. ✓ Composition may vary slightly from batch tobatch. ✓ Energy, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur requirements are primarily met by protein fragments (peptones). ✓ Vitamins and organic growth factors provided by meat and yeast extracts. ✓ Two forms of complex media: • Nutrient broth: Liquid media • Nutrient agar: Solidmedia
  • 18. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Anaerobic Growth Media: Used to grow anaerobes that might be ✓ Reducing media killed by oxygen. ✓ Contain ingredients that chemically combine with oxygen and remove it from the medium. Example: Sodium thioglycolate ✓ Tubes are heated shortly before use to drive off oxygen. ✓ Plates must be grown in oxygen free containers (anaerobic chambers).
  • 19. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Special Culture Techniques: Used to grow bacteria with unusual growth requirements. ✓ Bacteria that do not grow on artificialmedia: • Mycobacterium leprae (leprosy): Grown in armadillos. • Treponema pallidum (syphilis): Grown in rabbit testicles. • Obligate intracellular bacteria (rickettsias and chlamydias): Only grow in host cells. ✓ Bacteria that require high or low CO2 levels: • Capnophiles: Grow better at high CO 2 levels and low O 2 levels. Similar to environment of intestinal tract, respiratory tract, and other tissues.
  • 20. EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCINGCO2 RICH ENVIRONMENTS
  • 21. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Selective Media: Used to suppress the growth of unwanted bacteria and encourage the growth of desired microbes. ✓ Saboraud’s Dextrose Agar: pH of 5.6 discourages bacterial growth. Used to isolate fungi. ✓ Brilliant Green Agar: Green dye selectively inhibits gram-positive bacteria. Used to isolate gram-negative Salmonella. ✓ Bismuth Sulfite Agar : Used to isolate Salmonella typhi. Inhibits growth of most other bacteria.
  • 22. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Differential Media: Used to distinguish colonies of a desired organism. ✓ Blood Agar: Used to distinguish bacteria that destroy red blood cells (hemolysis). Hemolysis appears as an area of clearingaround colony. Example: Streptococcus pyogenes.
  • 23. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA • Both selective and differential media: used bothto distinguish colonies of a desired organism, and inhibit thegrowth ofother microbes. ✓ mannitol salt agar: used to distinguish andselect for Staphylococcus aureus. • high salt (7.5% NaCl) discourages growth ofother organisms. • pH indicator changes color when mannitol is fermented to acid.
  • 24. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA • both selective and differential media: used bothto distinguish colonies of a desired organism, and inhibit thegrowth ofother microbes. ✓ macconkey agar: used to distinguish and select for Salmonella . • bile salts and crystal violet discourage growth ofgram- positive bacteria. • lactose plus pH indicator: lactose fermentersproduce pink or red colonies, nonfermenters arecolorless.
  • 25. MICROBIAL GROWTH CULTURE MEDIA Enrichment Culture: Used to favor the growth of a microbe that may be found in very small numbers. ◆Unlike selective medium, does not necessarily suppress the growth of other microbes. ◆ Used mainly for fecal and soil samples. ◆After incubation in enrichment medium, greater numbers of the organisms, increase the likelihood of positive identification.
  • 26. MICROBIAL GROWTH OBTAINING PURE CULTURES Pure Culture: Contains a single microbial species. Most clinical and environmental specimens contain several different microorganisms. To obtain a pure culture, individual organisms must be isolated. The most common method of isolation is the streak plate , in which a sterile loop is inserted into a sample and streaked onto a plate in a pattern, to obtain individual colonies Colony: A group of descendants of an original cell.
  • 27. Microbial Growth Growth of Bacterial Cultures Bacterial Division: Occurs mainly by binary fission. A few bacterial species reproduce by budding. Generation Time: Time required for a cell todivide, and its population to double. Generation time varies considerably: ◆E. coli divides every 20 minutes. ◆Most bacteria divide every 1 to 3 hours. ◆Some bacteria require over 24 hours todivide.
  • 29. MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH Bacterial Growth Curve : When bacteria are inoculated into a liquid growth medium, we can plot of the number of cells in the population over time. Four phases of Bacterial Growth: 1. Lag Phase: ✓ Period of adjustment to newconditions. ✓ Little or no cell division occurs, population size doesn’t increase. ✓ Phase of intense metabolic activity, in which individual organisms grow in size. ✓ May last from one hour to several days.
  • 30. MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH Four phases of Bacterial Growth: 2. Log Phase: ✓ Cells begin to divide and generation time reaches a constant minimum. ✓ Period of most rapidgrowth. Number of cells produced > Number of cells dying ✓ Cells are at highest metabolic activity. ✓ Cells are most susceptible to adverse environmental factors at thisstage. • Radiation • Antibiotics
  • 31. MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH Four phases of Bacterial Growth: 3. StationaryPhase: ✓ Population size begins to stabilize. Number of cells produced = Number of cells dying ✓ Overall cell number does not increase. ✓ Cell division begins to slow down. ✓ Factors that slow down microbial growth: • Accumulation of toxic waste materials • Acidic pH of media • Limited nutrients • Insufficient oxygen supply
  • 32. MICROBIAL GROWTH PHASES OF GROWTH Four phases of Bacterial Growth: 4. Death or Decline Phase: ✓ Population size begins to decrease. Number of cells dying > Number of cells produced ✓ Cell number decreases at a logarithmic rate. ✓ Cells lose their ability todivide. ✓ A few cells may remain alive for a long period of time.
  • 33. Four Phases of Bacterial Growth Curve
  • 34. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 1. Plate count: ✓ Most frequently used method of measuring bacterial populations. ✓ Inoculate plate with a sample and count number of colonies. Assumptions: • Eachcolony originatesfrom a single bacterialcell. • Original inoculum is homogeneous. • No cell aggregates arepresent. Advantages: • Measures viable cells Disadvantages: • Takes24 hours or more for visible colonies to appear. • Only countsbetween25 and 250 colonies are accurate. • Must perform serial dilutions to get appropriatenumbers/plate.
  • 35. Serial Dilutions are Used with the Plate Count Method to Measure Numbers of Bacteria
  • 36. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 1. Plate count: A. Pour Plate: ✓ Introduce a 1.0 or 0.1 ml inoculuminto an empty Petri dish. ✓ Add liquid nutrient medium kept at50oC. ✓ Gently mix, allow to solidify, andincubate. Disadvantages: • Not useful for heat sensitiveorganisms. • Colonies appear under agar surface. B. Spread Plate: ✓ Introduce a 0.1 ml inoculum onto the surface of Petri dish. ✓ Spread with a sterile glass rod. ✓ Advantages: Colonies will be on surface and not exposed to melted agar.
  • 37. Pour Plates versus Spread Plates
  • 38. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 2. Filtration: ✓ Used to measure small quantities of bacteria. • Example: Fecal bacteria in a lake or in ocean water. ✓ A large sample (100 ml or more) is filtered to retain bacteria. ✓ Filter is transferred onto a Petri dish. ✓ Incubate and count colonies.
  • 39. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 3. Most Probable Number (MPN): ✓ Used mainly to measure bacteria that will not grow on solid medium. ✓ Dilute a sample repeatedly and inoculate several broth tubes for each dilution point. ✓ Count the number of positive tubes in each set. ✓ Statistical method: Determines 95% probability that a bacterial population falls within a certain range.
  • 40. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH DIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 4. Direct Microscopic Count: ✓ A specific volume of a bacterial suspension (0.01 ml) is placed on a microscope slide with a specialgrid. ✓ Stain is added to visualize bacteria. ✓ Cells are counted and multiplied by a factor to obtain concentration. Advantages: • No incubation time required. Disadvantages: • Cannot always distinguish between live and dead bacteria. • Motile bacteria are difficult to count. • Requires a high concentration of bacteria (10 million/ml).
  • 41. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH INDIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 1. Turbidity: ✓ As bacteria multiply in media, it becomes turbid. ✓ Use a spectrophotometer to determine % transmission or absorbance. ✓ Multiply by a factor to determineconcentration. Advantages: • No incubation time required. Disadvantages: • Cannot distinguish between live and dead bacteria. • Requires a high concentration of bacteria (10 to 100 million cells/ml).
  • 42. MEASURING MICROBIAL GROWTH INDIRECT METHODSOF MEASUREMENT 2. Metabolic Activity: ✓ As bacteria multiply in media, they produce certain products: • Carbon dioxide • Acids ✓ Measure metabolic products. ✓ Expensive 3. Dry Weight: ✓ Bacteria or fungi in liquid media arecentrifuged. ✓ Resulting cell pellet is weighed. ✓ Doesn’t distinguish live and dead cells.