Bacteria reproduce through binary fission in which one parent cell divides to form two progeny cells, allowing for exponential growth. The bacterial growth cycle consists of four phases - lag phase, log/exponential phase, stationary phase, and death phase. During the lag phase, cells do not divide as they adapt to their environment. The log phase is marked by rapid cell division, while stationary phase occurs when resources are depleted. The death phase follows as cell numbers decline. Bacteria can be aerobic, using oxygen for respiration, facultative anaerobic, using oxygen or fermentation, or obligate anaerobic, unable to tolerate oxygen. Important bacterial groups include mycoplasmas, spirochetes, actinomy
2. Growth of Bacterial cell
Sebghatullah Mansoor
BS (Medical Sciences), MS (Microbiology),
MPH (Continue)
Medical faculty of Malalay University
06/Feb/2017
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4. Bacteria reproduce by Binary Fission;
. A process by which one parent cell divides
to form two progeny cells. Because one cell
gives rise to two progeny cells, bacteria are
said to undergo exponential growth
(logarithmic growth).
Bacterial Growth Cycle
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5. Bacterial Growth Cycle
1 bacterium will produce 16 bacteria after 4 generations.
The doubling (generation) time of bacteria ranges from as little as 20
minutes for Escherichia coli to as long as 18 hours for Mycobacterium
tuberculosis.
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6. Bacterial Growth Cycle
The exponential growth and the short doubling time of some
organisms result in rapid production of very large numbers of
bacteria.
For example, 1 E. coli organism will produce over 1000 progeny in
about 3 hours and over 1 million in about 7 hours.
The doubling time varies not only with the species, but also with the
amount of nutrients, the temperature, the pH, and other
environmental factors.
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7. The growth cycle of bacteria has four major phases. If a small
number of bacteria are inoculated into a liquid nutrient medium
and the bacteria are counted at frequent intervals,
1. Lag Phase
2. Log (Exponential ) Phase
3. Stationary Phase
4. Decline ( Death ) Phase
Bacterial Growth Cycle
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8. 1. Lag Phase; During which energetic metabolic activity
occurs but cells do not divide. This can last for a few
minutes up to many hours.
Cells not divided because?
. The inadaptability of bacterium with new environment
. Enzymes are formed and accumulate until they are
present in concentrations that permit growth to resume.
. Genetically incapable of growth in the new medium
Bacterial Growth Cycle
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10. 2. Log (Exponential ) Phase; is when rapid cell division occurs,
because of sufficient nutrients and space in the culture
medium.
This phase is important for these reasons ?
. 硫-Lactam drugs, such as penicillin, act during this phase
because the drugs are effective when cells are making
peptidoglycan (i.e., when they are dividing).
Bacterial Growth Cycle
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12. 3. Stationary Phase; The stationary phase occurs when
nutrient reduction or toxic products cause growth to slow until
the number of new cells produced balances the number of
cells that die. This may take hours.
The importance of this phase?
1. exhaustion of available nutrients
2. accumulation of inhibitory metabolites or end products
3. exhaustion of space, in this case called a lack of "biological space".
4. It is during the stationary phase that spore-forming bacteria have to induce
or expose the activity of dozens of genes that may be involved in sporulation
process.
Bacterial Growth Cycle
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14. 4. Decline ( Death ) Phase ; The final phase is the death phase,
which is marked by a decline in the number of viable bacteria.
In this phase few of the bacteria may survive for months.
Bacterial Growth Cycle
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20. Aerobic & Anaerobic Growth
For most organisms, an adequate supply of oxygen enhances metabolism and
growth.
The oxygen acts as the hydrogen acceptor in the final steps of energy
production catalyzed by the flavoproteins and cytochromes. Because the use
of oxygen generates two toxic molecules, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the
free radical superoxide (O2).
Bacteria require two enzymes to utilize oxygen. The first is superoxide
dismutase, which catalyzes the reaction and the second is catalase, which
catalyzes the reaction
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21. 1. Some bacteria, such as M. tuberculosis, are obligate aerobes; that is, they
require oxygen to grow because their ATP-generating system is dependent
on oxygen as the hydrogen acceptor.
2. Other bacteria, such as E. coli, are facultative anaerobes; they utilize
oxygen, if it is present, to generate energy by respiration, but they can use
the fermentation pathway to synthesize ATP in the absence of sufficient
oxygen.
3. The third group of bacteria consists of the obligate anaerobes, such as
Clostridium tetani, which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen because
they lack either superoxide dismutase or catalase, or both. Obligate
anaerobes vary in their response to oxygen exposure; some can survive but
are not able to grow, whereas others are killed rapidly.
Aerobic & Anaerobic Growth
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23. Some important other types of Bacteria
Mycoplasma
Spirochetes
Actinomycetes
Rickettsia
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24. Mycoplasma
There are more than 200 known species in the class of Mollicutes (cell wallfree bacteria).
Mycoplasmas are the smallest organisms that can be free living in nature and self-replicating on laboratory
media
They have the following characteristics
The smallest mycoplasmas are 125250 nm in size
They are highly pleomorphic because they lack a rigid cell wall, they contains a sterol, can be seen as (round,
rod, filament and granules)
Mycoplasmas are completely resistant to penicillin because they lack the cell wall structures at which
penicillin acts.
Border line between virus and bacteria
Can not be seen by light microscope, electron microscope required
We can stain with Giemsa stain
Replicate by binary fission,
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25. At least 16 of these species are thought to be of human origin; others
have been isolated from animals and plants.
In humans, four species are of primary importance:
1. Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
2. Mycoplasma hominis
3. Ureaplasma urealyticum
4. Mycoplasma genitalium
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Mycoplasma
27. Spirochetes
Spirochetes are thin-walled, flexible, spiral rods
They are motile through the undulation of axial filaments that lie under the outer
sheath. Treponemes and leptospirae are so thin that they are seen only by dark
field microscopy, or immunofluorescence.
Borreliae are larger, accept Giemsa and other blood stains, and can be seen in the
standard light microscope.
Family ( Spirochaetaceae ) consists of two genera whose members are human
pathogens
Borrelia and Treponema .
The other family (Leptospiraceae) includes three genera:
Leptospira , Leptonema , and Turneriella .
They are long, slender, helically coiled, spiral or corkscrew- shaped bacilli.
T. pallidum has an outer sheath or glycosaminoglycan coating.
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29. Actinomycetes
Actinomycetes are a family of bacteria that form long, branching
filaments that resemble the hyphae of fungi .
They are related to the corynebacteria and include multiple genera
of clinical significance such as Mycobacteria and saprophytic
organisms such as Streptomyces
They are gram-positive, but some (such as Nocardia asteroides) are
also weakly acid-fast rods
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31. Rickettsia
Rickettsiae are obligate intracellular bacteria; that is, they can grow
only within cells.
They are the agents of typhus, spotted fevers, and Q fever.
Rickettsiae are very short rods that are barely visible in the light
microscope. Structurally, their cell wall resembles that of gram-
negative rods, but they stain poorly with the standard Gram stain.
Example ;
Rickettsia typhi
Rickettsia prowazeki
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