Microbial Degradation of Phenol in Denitrifying Conditions

Acta Microbiologica Polonica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-75

  Błaszczyk, Mieczysław ^a   Przytocka Jusiak, Magdalena ^a   Suszek, Agnieszka ^a   Mielcarek, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; PHENOL;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; KINETICS; NITRATES; PHENOL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031614243     PISSN: 01371320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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