Group-specific small-subunit rRNA hybridization probes to characterize filamentous foaming in activated sludge systems

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1107-1117

  De Los Reyes, Francis L ^b   Ritter, Wolfgang ^a,b   Raskin, Lutgarde ^b  

^a 3221 Newmark Civ Eng Laboratory ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FOAM; MYCOBACTERIUM; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RNA HYBRIDIZATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GORDONIA (ACTINOMYCETE); GORDONIA AMARAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; NOCARDIA;

EID: 0031030478     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.1107-1117.1997     Document Type: Article

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