Reduction of soluble iron and reductive dissolution of ferric iron- containing minerals by moderately thermophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2181-2186

  Bridge, Toni A M ^a,b   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; IRON OXIDE;

BACTERIA; IRON-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; MINERALIZATION; OXIDATION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ACIDIMICROBIUM FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; SULFOBACILLUS THERMOSULFIDOOXIDANS;

EID: 0031800168     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.6.2181-2186.1998     Document Type: Article

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