Escherichia coli (E-coli) are the bacteria usually found in food , environment , human and animal intestines. There are so many harmless strained E-coli, and few other sorts are infectious. The harmful E-coli can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infection (UTI), respiratory diseases, pneumonia etc. In...
Microbial Growth In this lab we measured the absorbance, at 15 minute intervals, of Escherichia coli in tryptic soy broth using a spectrophotometer. Using measurements of optical density (OD) provided by the spectrophotometer we are then able to calculate the values for growth rate (k)...