Bioprocess Engineering 2nd Edition by Fikret Kargi,Michael Shuler

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You are asked to develop a medium for production of an antibiotic. The antibiotic is to be
made in large amounts (ten 100,000 l fermenters) and is relatively inexpensive. The host cell
is a soil isolate of a fungal species, and the nutritional requirements for rapid growth are un-
certain. Will you try to develop a defined or complex medium? Why?