A microbial survival curve is constructed by plotting the number of recoverable cells or their
logarithm vs. the exposure time to the hostile agent, be it high or low temperature, a …

Occasionally, experimental survival curves of micro-organisms exposed to a lethal agent
have a flat region and traditionally it has been interpreted as evidence of the existence of a …

Traditionally, the efficacy of preservation and disinfection processes has been assessed on
the basis of the assumption that microbial mortality follows a first-order kinetic. However, as …

There is growing evidence that the mortality of microbial cells, and the inactivation of
bacterial spores, exposed to a hostile environment need not follow a first order kinetics …

The heat inactivation of microbial spores and the mortality of vegetative cells exposed to
heat or a hostile environment have been traditionally assumed to be governed by first-order …

This paper evaluates the applicability of the Weibull model to describe thermal inactivation
of microbial vegetative cells as an alternative for the classical Bigelow model of first-order …

Traditionally, an organism's heat resistance parameters have been determined from a set of
experimental isothermal survival data. Sometimes, however, even approximating an …

During microbial inactivation by a lethal agent (ignoring damage/injury, recovery from
damage/injury, etc.), an individual spore or cell can be either viable/alive and countable, or …

The most commonly used methods to generate microbial inactivation curves are based on
the assumptions that microbial mortality follows first order kinetics and that the temperature …

Published survival curves of Escherichia coli in two growth media, with and without the
presence of salt, at various temperatures and in a Greek eggplant salad having various …