Healthy environments for healthy people: Bioremediation today and tomorrow

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 5-20

  Bonaventura, Celia ^a   Johnson, Franklin M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic and anaerobic metabolism; Biofiltration; Bioreactors; Bioremediation; Catabolic enzymes; In situ remediation; Land farming; Metal bioadsorption; Pollution; Selected and engineered microbes; Sewage treatment; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTRATION; BIOREACTOR; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030961480     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s15     Document Type: Review

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