A bioluminescence assay using Nitrosomonas europaea for rapid and sensitive detection of nitrification inhibitors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3656-3662

  Iizumi, Taro ^a   Mizumoto, Masahiro ^a   Nakamura, Kanji ^a  

^a KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENES; LIGHT EMISSION; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE ASSAY; NITRIFICATION INHIBITORS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

BIOASSAY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOLUMINESCENCE; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 0032190420     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.3656-3662.1998     Document Type: Article

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