A simple and easy method for the monitoring of environmental pollutants using oligotrophic bacteria

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 12-15

  Tada, Y ^a,b   Kobata, T ^a,b   Nakaoka, C ^a,b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF WAKAYAMA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; RIVER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; OLIGOTROPHIC BACTERIA; OPTICAL DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; SIMPLE++; SKILLED PERSONNEL; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; VIABLE CELLS; VIABLE COUNT;

HEAVY METALS;

HEAVY METAL; RIVER WATER;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; MONITORING; POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAVY METAL POISONING; MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DENSITY; POLLUTANT; RIVER; SOIL POLLUTION; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; OLIGOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

EID: 0035128516     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2001.00850.x     Document Type: Article

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