Growth prediction of two bacterial populations in co-culture with lactic acid bacteria.

The co-culture growth of , and lactic acid bacteria starter culture in milk was quantitatively evaluated and modelled with a set of coupled differential equations originally proposed by Baranyi and Roberts and by Gimenez and Dalgaard (BR-GD model). The lactic acid bacteria starter culture showed the ability to induce an early stationary phase of both and populations at different combination of temperature (ranging from 12 to 37 ℃) and lactic acid bacteria inocula (from approx. 10 to 10 CFU/ml).