Assessment of indigenous reductive dechlorinating potential at a TCE-contaminated site using microcosms, polymerase chain reaction analysis, and site data

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1830-1839

  Fennell, Donna E ^a   Carroll, Amy B ^b   Gossett, James M ^b   Zinder, Stephen H ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; AUTOCLAVES; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; DNA; ENZYMES; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; DNA; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; RIBOSOME RNA; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER; POLLUTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROCOSM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHLOROETHENE;

ARTICLE; DECHLORINATION; ELECTRON; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLORIDA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035326426     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0016203     Document Type: Article

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