Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 22

Critical thinking is the ability to reason and solve problems using facts and concepts. These questions can be approached from a number of angles and, in most cases, they do not have a single correct answer.
a. Precisely what is microbial death
b. Why does a population of microbes not die instantaneously when exposed to an antimicrobial agent