Microbial dechlorination of historically present and freshly spiked chlorinated dioxins and diversity of dioxin-dechlorinating populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4556-4562

  Barkovskii, Andrei L ^a   Adriaens, Peter ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

ARTICLE; DECHLORINATION; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIVER; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHLORINATED DIOXIN; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; DECHLORINATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DECHLORINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029659244     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.12.4556-4562.1996     Document Type: Article

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