Complete detoxification of vinyl chloride by an anaerobic enrichment culture and identification of the reductively dechlorinating population as a Dehalococcoides species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 996-1003

  He, Jianzhong ^a   Ritalahti, Kirsti M ^a   Aiello, Michael R ^c   Löffler, Frank E ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; DETOXIFICATION;

ELECTRON ACCEPTORS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ETHYLENE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

DECHLORINATION; DETOXIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DETOXIFICATION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUCTION; UNITED STATES;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CHLORINE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 0037317620     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.996-1003.2003     Document Type: Article

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