Implicit Role of Metabolism in Microbial Control

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Implicit role of metabolism in microbial control

For many years, the process of microbial control has become one of the most discussed topics around the world. Numerous studies have evolved from the process of microbial control and the implication of metabolism. Metabolism in microbial control is one of the most important pathways into disrupting the chemical reactions of microbes. By disturbing the catabolic and anabolic process of energy, the cell can no longer use ATP to synthesize or to continue on multiplying. As metabolism plays a major role in microbial synthesis, microbiologists use this same resource as a method of controlling microbes. By disrupting the cell’s metabolic process, microbiologists are able to provide alternative ways that society, hospitals, and health care providers could used to control microbial growth. Hence, microbiologist are using physical, chemical, and chemotherapy to control microbial growth.

A physical agent that has reduced the growth of microbes by targeting the process metabolism is heat. Heat is performed in the form of moist heat and dry heat. Moist heat could be in the form of stem under pressure, non pressurized steam, boiling, and pasteurization. Moist heat is effective in low temperatures that range from 121-134° C. These temperatures require short exposure to heat from 3-15 minutes. During the process of moist heat, microbial metabolism is discontinued as proteins are denatured by the exposure to heat. In the process of dry heat, microbial control requires higher temperatures that range from 121-170° C. The amount of time necessary in order for dry heat to be successful is from 1-10 hours. As dry heat takes place, metabolism is disrupted by the removal of water. Microbial control i...

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... control microbial growth, but careful administration must also be provided. Antimicrobial gents in access could not only harm the disease causing microbe, but the body as well. It is also important in chemotherapy agents, that antibiotics are used properly because bacteria could attain resistance. Therefore, the role of metabolism in the life of a cell, is a blue print to the control of microbial growth.

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