TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Growth
A1  - Levinson, Warren
A1  - Chin-Hong, Peter
A1  - Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1  - Nussbaum, Jesse
A1  - Schwartz, Brian
PY  - 2022
T2  - Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e
AB  - When  we  think  of  growth,  this  is  usually  in  reference  to  changes  in  weight  (how  many  ounces  has  a  baby  gained?)  or  height  (how  many  inches  has  a  child  grown?).  However,  thinking  about  bacterial  growth  usually  refers  to  the  number  of  bacteria.  Bacteria  reproduce  by  binary  fission,  a  process  by  which  one  cell  divides  into  two  cells,  two  divides  into  four,  four  divides  into  8,  etc.  This  is  referred  to  as  exponential  growth  (logarithmic  growth),  which  is  illustrated  by  the  following  relationship:  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/23
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190859058
ER  -