Importance of extracellular polymeric substances from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans for bioleaching

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2743-2747

  Gehrke, Tilman ^a   Telegdi, Judit ^b   Thierry, Dominique ^c   Sand, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CTRL RES INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c SWEREA KIMAB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEACHING; NONHUMAN;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;

EID: 0031866420     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2743-2747.1998     Document Type: Article

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