What is the D Value or DRT in this Microbial Death Curve

Last updated: 11/29/2023

What is the D Value or DRT in this Microbial Death Curve log10 of number of live bacterial cells 99876 HO 10 1 0 Microbial Death Curve 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Time min Arithmetic scale O Log 10 D value Source OpenStax Microbiology half an hour 50 minutes Arithmetic number of live bacterial cells 10 000 000 000 1 000 000 000 100 000 000 10 000 000 1 000 000 100 000 10 000 1 000 100 10 1 Logarithmic scale O 10 raised to the power of 6 bacterial cells Time min 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Number of cells 1010 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 10 10 10