Discuss microbial load and microbial growth

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Discuss microbial load and microbial growth

Answer 1

Load would be how much, and growth could be about rate.  Think of TB.  It grows real real slow, and most people with the disease have no symptoms from it.  But, there is an amount, a load, present.  some people with the disease progress right away, but not everyone.  For most , later when the person is sick or there is some other trigger, then the TB can develop.

Compare that to a bacteria that grows rapidly.  You can have a small load that explodes because of the rapid growth rate.  But in doing that it exposes itself to the bodies defenses.  

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