Community analysis of ammonia and nitrite oxidizers during start-up of nitritation reactors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3213-3222

  Egli, Konrad ^a,c   Langer, Christian ^a   Siegrist, Hans Ruedi ^a   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^a   Wagner, Michael ^b   Van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; NITRIFICATION; RNA; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

HYBRIDIZATION;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; DILUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROFLORA; NITRIFICATION; NITRITATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; REACTOR; SLUDGE; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS COMMUNIS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSPIRA; OLIGOTROPHA;

EID: 0037979239     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3213-3222.2003     Document Type: Article

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