Two new Mycobacterium strains and their role in toluene degradation in a contaminated stream

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1715-1720

  Tay, Stephen T L ^a   Hemond, Harold F ^a   Polz, Martin F ^b,d   Cavanaugh, Colleen M ^b   Dejesus, Indhira ^a   Krumholz, Lee R ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FATTY ACID; RIBOSOME DNA; TUBERCULOSTEARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AURUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KOMOSSENSE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031833975     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.5.1715-1720.1998     Document Type: Article

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