Phenol- and toluene-degrading microbial populations from an aquifer in which successful trichloroethene cometabolism occurred

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1523-1530

  Fries, Marcos R ^a,c   Forney, Larry J ^a,b   Tiedje, James M ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Universidade Federal de Santa Maria ^*  (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOL; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYBRIDIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

AQUIFER; BACTERIA; COMETABOLISM; DEGRADATION; PHENOL; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHENE;

USA, CALIFORNIA, MOFFETT FIELD;

EID: 0030613350     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1523-1530.1997     Document Type: Article

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