Estimating the toxicities of organic chemicals to bioluminescent bacteria and activated sludge

Water Research

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 4406-4414

  Ren, Shijin ^a,b   Frymier, Paul D ^a,b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Bioluminescent bacteria; Kow; QSAR; Shk1; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ASSAYS; BACTERIA; BIOLUMINESCENCE; WASTEWATER;

PARTITION COEFFICIENTS;

TOXICITY;

OCTANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

ACCURACY; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; LUMINESCENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SEWAGE; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0036803211     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(02)00153-7     Document Type: Article

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