Table 2 Gompertz model parameters estimated for Candida spp. growth in monocultures and mixed cultures bioreactors treated with 12.5% L. plantarum postbiotics.
Parameters | Candida albicans | Candida kefyr | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Monoculture | Mixed culture | Monoculture | Mixed culture | ||||||||||||
Without postbiotics | Postbiotics | Without postbiotics | Postbiotics | Without postbiotics | Postbiotics | Without postbiotics | Postbiotics | ||||||||
a: Maximum population | 8.86E+06 | a | 6.61E+06 | a | 4.50E+06 | b | 2.50E+06 | 4.54E+07 | a | 3.47E+07 | a | 1.60E+07 | b | 1.45E+07 | b |
b: Maximum growth rate | 0.34 | a | 0.21 | b | 0.48 | b | 0.30 | 0.39 | a | 0.34 | a | 0.35 | a | 0.33 | b |
c: Lag phase duration | 5.81 | a | 6.16 | a | 4.78 | a | 5.58 | 3.97 | a | 5.26 | b | 5.92 | b | 5.82 | b |
d: Initial cell concentration | 4.61E+05 | a | 3.44E+05 | a | 3.57E+05 | a | 3.43E+05 | 3.01E+05 | a | 3.27E+05 | a | 3.83E+05 | a | 3.50E+05 | a |
R2 | 0.9843 | 0.9902 | 0.9981 | 0.9785 | 0.9988 | 0.9963 | 0.997 | 0.9886 | |||||||
