Effect of pretreatment of rubber material on its biodegradability by various rubber degrading bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-206

  Berekaa, Mahmoud M ^a   Linos, Alexandros ^a   Reichelt, Rudolf ^a   Keller, Ulrike ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; Biodegradation; cis 1,4 Polyisoprene; Gordonia polyisoprenivorans; Gordonia sp.; Latex glove; Micromonospora aurantiaca; Mycobacterium fortuitum; Natural rubber; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

LATEX; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GORDONIA; INCUBATION TIME; MINERALIZATION; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANTIOXIDANTS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BUTADIENES; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HEMITERPENES; LATEX; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PENTANES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RUBBER;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS; GORDONIA SP.; GORDONIA SP. KB2; MICROMONOSPORA; MICROMONOSPORA AURANTIACA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034653781     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00048-3     Document Type: Article

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