Bacterial community in copper sulfide ores inoculated and leached with solution from a commercial-scale copper leaching plant

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1344-1348

  Espejo, Romilio T ^a,b   Romero, Jaime ^a  

^a SMP Tecnología   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HETERODUPLEX; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SPACER DNA; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; LEACHING; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERROOXIDANS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THIOBACILLUS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERROOXIDANS; THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; THIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS;

BACTERIA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COPPER LEACHING PLANT; COPPER SULFIDE ORE;

EID: 0030613232     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1344-1348.1997     Document Type: Article

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