An outbreak of nonflocculating catabolic populations caused the breakdown of a phenol-digesting activated-sludge process

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2813-2819

  Watanabe, Kazuya ^a   Teramoto, Maki ^a   Harayama, Shigeaki ^a  

^a MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLOCCULATION; PHENOLS; SLUDGE DIGESTION;

TEMPERATURE GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (TGGE);

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; COMAMONAS; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE DIGESTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS;

EID: 0033014982     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.2813-2819.1999     Document Type: Article

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