Microbiology of a nitrite-oxidizing bioreactor

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1878-1883

  Burrell, Paul C ^a   Keller, Jürg ^a   Blackall, Linda L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; SALTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

AUTOTROPHS; HETEROTROPHS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NITRITE; NITRITE OXIDIZING SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; NITROSPIRA MOSCOVIENSIS; OXIDIZING AGENT; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SLUDGE DIGESTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROSPIRA MOSCOVIENSIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032077136     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.5.1878-1883.1998     Document Type: Article

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