Antibiotics Effect on Growth Rate
Antibiotics are important for the treatment of bacterial infections, and it is therefore important to know how different antibiotic works in different contexts. Different kinds of bacteria are affected to different degrees by different antibiotics, and it may therefore be useful to know which antibiotic that attacks the bacteria. The purpose of this report is to analyze how antibiotics including Chloramphenicol and Ampicillin affect the growth rate of bacteria Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. Which antibiotic is the most effective or least effective in inhibiting the growth rate of these two bacteria respectively?
In the article Growth Chart (www.vetbact.org, 2015-11-19) it was written that bacteria are unicellular organisms that are in good nutrient availability can multiply indefinitely by dividing. It takes different amounts of time for different bacteria that doubled - this time called the generation time. When adding bacteria to a culture medium, it takes only a moment before they have adapted to their new environment.
MicrobeWiki writes in his report Bacillus subtitles (microbewiki.kenyon.edu, 2016-05-10) that B. subtitles are gram-positive bacteria, facultative anaerobic bacteria which are classified as non-pathogenic. It occurs all over the place, for example in air, compost and soil, but can also be on the skin and in the human intestine, although it is not as common. Escherichia coli are gram negative, facultative
According to data, the natural antibiotics worked better for defending against Bacillus cereus. The Oregano Oil and the Garlic had tied for first and proved to have the largest zone with a length of 18 millimeters between the disc and the bacteria after 48 hours of growth. For a bacteria such as “Food Poisoning” the final result was shocking that the least amount of growth was for the man made antibiotics because they were specifically made to fight these types of Bacteria. The final result for Gentamicin had proved it to have a much smaller zone of inhibition with a zone of just 12 milimeters after the 48 hour time period. The growth of the penicillin was the lowest of them all with the very small zone of 0 millimeters after the 48 hours.
THE EFFECT OF INCREASING THE CONCENTRATION OF DETTOL ANTISEPTIC LIQUID ON THE GROWTH OF E.COLI
Bacteria can exist almost everywhere, some are harmless, and some are harmful. There are thousands of different types of bacteria and they fall
AIM – The aim of the experiment is to determine the relative effectiveness of several anti-microbial substances on developing pathogens. (E. coli)
All bacteria need time to be able to multiply and it has been observed that generally bacteria divide into two every twenty minutes.
Bacteria is a single celled organism, bacteria have evolved to thrive in almost any environment and can be found in almost any substance/surface and also in the human body, only 1% of bacteria is actually harmful.
Effect of 5-Fluorouracil, Penicillin G and Amphotericin on the growth of Pythium and Micrococcus luteus
The purpose of this report is to analyse the growth of the bacteria known as Citrobacter Freundii as well as distinguishing what antibiotics effect its growth. This will be done so by answering the following question after completing its associated experiments. This question includes: what antibiotics are most effective in denaturing the bacteria? It has been predicted that chloramphenicol will be the most effective due to the fact that its medical uses are treating meningitis which is an infection caused by Citrobacter freundii. After conducting the experiments it was found that the chloramphenicol antibiotic was the most effective in denaturing the bacteria, although streptomycin was also affective. However, none of the other antibiotics were able to halt the growth of the bacteria.
As shown in the figure above, it is evident that V.natriegens grew faster when the Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) broth contained 250mM NaCl. The # of bacterial cells at each time point was measured following the equation given in the “How to generate a bacterial growth curve” supplemental material posted on D2L. (2) The data was then recorded in the table listed above. A growth curve graph was constructed using the data above which illustrated the differences between each of the different BHI mixtures. The graph was then used to determine the generation time of V.natriegens for each different environmental condition. In order to calculate the generation time (g) the mean growth rate (k) must be calculated. The formula to do this is posted in the supplemental material “How to generate a bacterial growth curve” on D2L. The k value calculated for each condition goes as follows:
This experiment is about bacterial growth. We will demonstrate a bacterial growth curve using a closed system. Bacterial growth usually takes up to 12-24 hours to get an accurate result so we will be monitoring this growth between two classes. We also used different methods to determine bacterial growth as well as a few different calculations. One way of receiving data is by using a spectrophotometer where we will record the absorption at a given time to create the bacterial growth curve. We also used the plate count method after performing a serial dilution to calculate the actual cell density at different times given. By using this method we can count the population number of the same given and see the maximum cell density
These mutations, no matter what process that has led to their occurrence, block the action of antibiotics by interfering with their mechanism of action (1). Currently, antibiotics attack bacteria through one of two mechanisms. In both mechanisms the antibiotic enters the microbe and interferes with production of the components needed to form new bacterial cells. Some antibiotics act on the cell membrane, causing increased permeability and leakage of cell contents. Other antibiotics interfere with protein synthesis in cells. They block one or more of the steps involved in the transformation of nucleic acids into proteins.
Bacteria grows exponentially in the first phase of fermentation (acidogenesis phase) along the formation of acids (mostly acetate and
The use of antibiotics as growth promotants in the food production industry and their effect on of enhancing the evolution of bacterial species resistant to the currently available antibiotics.
Bacteria grows by binary fission. The aim of this experiment is to follow the growth of Serratia marcescens in nutrient broth at 37oCby recording the changes in turbidity (cloudiness) by measuring the absorbance of visible light (600 nm) and also to prove that there is an increase in the cell number and not just in mass during the growth. In the experiment we measure the full growth curve of Serratia marcescens by measuring the absorbance at 600nm at every 10 mins. I also determined the viable count at the start and the end of the exponential phase of growth. Using the growth curve I calculated the growth curve and it was 1.2. Using this I found the doubling time which was 34s.
The main objective of this experiment is to investigate the effect of different types of antibiotics on bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. Some of the main methods used in this experiment