In Situ Characterization of Nitrospira-Like Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria Active in Wastewater Treatment Plants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3-12, 2001, Pages 5273-5284

  Daims, Holger ^a   Nielsen, Jeppe L ^b   Nielsen, Per H ^b   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROSPIRA;

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRITE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CLASSIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 0035512205     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.11.5273-5284.2001     Document Type: Article

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