Baranyi J
Institute of Food Research, Early Gate, Whiteknights Road, Reading, RG6 6BZ, U.K.
J Theor Biol. 1998 Jun 7;192(3):403-408. doi: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0673.
The shortcomings of the traditional deterministic approach to bacterial lag are exposed in this paper. A more precise, stochastic, formulation is put forward which takes account of the variation of the individual cell's lag time. Formulae are given to describe how the lag-distribution of the cells relates to the deterministic population lag commonly used as a practical measure of bacterial lag time.Copyright 1998 Academic Press Limited