Mercury and organomercurial resistance in bacteria isolated from freshwater fish of wetland fisheries around Calcutta

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 71-78

  Sadhukhan, Provash Chandra ^a   Ghosh, S ^a   Chaudhuri, J ^a   Ghosh, D K ^a   Mandal, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

BACTERIA; FRESHWATER FISH; HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE; MERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BENTHOS; ESCHERICHIA; FISH; GILL; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; INDIA; INTESTINE; KLEBSIELLA; MICROCOCCUS; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY;

INDIA, WEST BENGAL, CALCUTTA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; KLEBSIELLA; MICROCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SARCINA; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030705194     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(97)00068-7     Document Type: Article

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