"Candidatus microthrix parvicella," a filamentous bacterium from activated sludge sewage treatment plants

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 344-346

  Blackall, Linda L ^a   Stratton, Helen ^b   Bradford, Debbie ^a   Del Dot, Therese ^a   Sjörup, Camilla ^a   Seviour, Elizabeth M ^b   Seviour, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEWAGE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TAXONOMY;

GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEWAGE;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

EID: 0029664307     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-46-1-344     Document Type: Article

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