Parameter estimation for the distribution of single cell lag times

J. József Baranyi (1) , Susan M. George (1) , Z. Zoltán Kutalik (2)

1 Institute of Food Research [Norwich]
2 Department of Medical Genetics

In Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment, it is vital to understand how lag times of individual cells are distributed over a bacterial population. Such identified distributions can be used to predict the time by which, in a growth-supporting environment, a few pathogenic cells can multiply to a poisoning concentration level.

Mots clés: Parameter estimation; Probability distribution; Single cell; Lag time; Stochastic process

J. József Baranyi, Susan M. George, Z. Zoltán Kutalik. Parameter estimation for the distribution of single cell lag times. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2009, 259 (1), pp.24. ⟨10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.03.023⟩. ⟨hal-00554596⟩