Bacterial oxidation of mercury metal vapor, Hg(0)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1328-1332

  Smith, Tracy ^a   Pitts, Keith ^a   McGarvey, Jeffery A ^a   Summers, Anne O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; MERCURY; PEROXIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; STREPTOMYCES;

BACILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0031968792     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1328-1332.1998     Document Type: Article

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